Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. He is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

Early life

Karl Guthe Jansky was born in what was then the Territory of Oklahoma where his father, Cyril M. Jansky, was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Cyril M. Jansky, born in Wisconsin of Czech immigrants, had started teaching at the age of sixteen. He was a teacher throughout his active life, retiring as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He was an engineer with a strong interest in physics, a trait passed on to his sons. Karl Jansky was named after Dr. Karl E. Guthe, a Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan who had been an important mentor to Cyril M. Jansky.

Karl Jansky's mother, born Nellie Moreau, was of French and English descent. Karl's brother Cyril Jansky Jr., who was ten years older, helped build some of the earliest radio transmitters in the country, including 9XM in Wisconsin (now WHA of Wisconsin Public Radio) and 9XI in Minnesota (now KUOM).

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A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system ... The object, named SIMP J01365663+0933473, has 12.7 times the mass of the gas giant Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system ... Astronomers found it using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio astronomy observatory�in New Mexico....

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An artist's impression of a planet in orbit around a red dwarf. Determining the habitability of red dwarf systems could help reveal the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, as red dwarfs make up most stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse

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Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 06, 2018. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times more massive than Jupiter, is a surprisingly strong magnetic powerhouse and a "rogue," traveling through space unaccompanied by any parent star. "This object is right at th ... ....

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Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism

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Brown dwarf or massive exoplanet detected with powerful magnetic field

Astronomy/Spaceflight Now 04 Aug 2018

Image. Caltech/Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope has detected emissions, presumably from an aurora, generated by an unusual body 12 times more massive than Jupiter and generating a magnetic field 200 times more intense that is flying through space on its own 20 light years from Earth ... Whether it is a massive exoplanet or a brown dwarf is not yet clear....

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The Daily Star 03 Aug 2018

In early July, we returned to the Southwest for a drive across New Mexico. During the second day, we stopped at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a huge radio telescope used by scientists to study the cosmos. We had visited the facility more than a decade ago during a cross-country trip but devoted less than an hour exploring the facility. This time we set aside a full morning ... Visitors are required to switch off cell phones ... ....

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How We Discovered the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

Astronomy 26 Jul 2018

Karl G. Jansky, a physicist working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, was trying to identify sources of static the telephone company might have to deal with when he stumbled upon the discovery in the early 1930s. Jansky wanted to investigate further to find out why radio waves were coming from interstellar space, but Bell Labs was not interested, and no one else followed up on the discovery for several years ... Stay tuned! ... 0 comments ... ....

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