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A radio telescope is used to study radio waves that come from stars and galaxies. What type of wave is a radio wave?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Radio waves are electromagnetic waves — transverse oscillations of electric and magnetic fields that travel through space. They are part of the electromagnetic spectrum (long wavelength, low frequency) and do not require a material medium to propagate, traveling at the speed of light in vacuum.