Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone
The National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia is a 13,000-square-mile area where radio emissions are heavily restricted to protect the sensitive radio telescopes at the Green Bank Observatory. It’s not about silence or sound, but about blocking radio wave interference so astronomers can
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