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Karl Jansky Radio Astronomy Monument

Holmdel Township, NJ

A monument on the former Bell Labs property honors Karl Jansky, whose 1930s experiments detected radio waves from the Milky Way and helped create the field of radio astronomy. The stop connects an otherwise quiet corporate campus with a major scientific discovery.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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