Karl Jansky was not an astronomer, but a radio engineer who inadvertently made an important contribution to astronomical science. He was born in Oklahoma in 1905 and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He took a job with Bell Telephone Laboratories...

1905-1950 American radio engineer who discovered the first extraterrestrial radio source. While investigating noise in short-wave radio communications, Jansky identified a steady hiss-type static and demonstrated its source to be the center of the...

American radio engineer One of the ways modern astronomers study the Universe is by tracing light waves through telescopes; another is by studying radio waves. The man who discovered the existence of these extraterrestrial radio waves, and thus founded...

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...

2nd Guth Gafa (10-13 May 2007, Gortahork, Co. Donegal) Guth Gafa 2007 begins on Thursday 10th May and runs for 3 days until Sunday 13th in Gortahork, County Donegal. This is the second year of the documentary festival, which takes place in...

1st Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival (18-21 May 2006, Gortahork, Donegal) The first ever Guth Gafa Documentary Film festival will take place in Gortahork, County Donegal between the 18th and 21st May 2006. Guth Gafa is the brainchild of Gortahork production...