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galactic noise

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galactic noise [gə′lak·tik ′nȯiz]
(astronomy)
Radio-frequency noise that originates outside the solar system; it is similar to thermal noise and is strongest in the direction of the Milky Way.


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Operating at exactly 3 millimeters - the wavelength at which total galactic noise is at a minimum -- Python may soon rival ACME-HEMT as the most sensitive medium-angle experiment so far conducted, says co-investigator Mark Dragovan of Princeton University.
 
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