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Apr. 17 For the study of Radio stars: One aerial of the large interferometric radio telescope at Cambridge. This instrument is intended for the study of radio stars remote sources of radio waves many of which are believed to be at distances beyond the reach of even the largest optical telescopes. This aerial is 65 ft, in width and 145 ft in length: The reflecting surface, nearly two acres in extent, is formed by stretching hundreds of fine steel wires across the tubular steel frame. The Origin of Matter: Cambridge Scientists Probe radio messages from outer space: Radio signals received from outer space are being studied at a science station on a bleak piece of farmland five miles from Cambridge. The station is Mullard radio astronomy observatory which is run by the Physician department of Cambridge University. Four year ago, the University received a generous gift from Mullard ltd, . For the extension of work in radio astronomy, and since its construction, the equipment has been active night and day investigation things which even the most powerful optical telescopes cannot as yet see. The station is in charge of Prof. Martin Ryle, a Scientist in his late thirties, who has designed some of the equipment himself.'Our real aim here, says the professor, is to try to establish how everything started. We get a picture of what life was like five thousand million light years away. Compare that to the present, and we know what progress we have made. That would clarify the theory that we are much the same as we were in the beginning. We know already that all the stars are moving away from us, which could suggest that at one time everything was one. Signals so far received are just growling, whirring or high pitched sounds, but the scientist accept the possibility that one day they will be able to translate them as definite message. Amplified versions of the signals, which may take as much as 25 years to reach us (and our's would be just that long, again), are picked up by sensitive instruments recording the variations of strength. Every month the details are fed into an electronic brain which makes about 250, 000

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