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radio telescope

form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy
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Summary

radio telescope ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,772 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: telescope[2], infrastructure[3], funded product[4], astronomical instrument[5]
  • Commons category: Radio telescopes[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Radio telescopes[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: telescope:type=radio[8]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9]
  • Used by: radio astronomy observatory[10]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04044716-n[11]
  • Model item: South Pole Telescope[12], Lovell Telescope[13]

Why It Matters

radio telescope has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q5912
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → radio-telescopes
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: radio-telescopes, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289953318|radio telescopes (#289953318)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → mMYDB
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3489862
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → telescope, infrastructure, funded product +1
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 4859, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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