Still, the radio window has already brought the universe to life in numberless unexpected ways.

The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications.

Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky.

The trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows.

British astronomers, often frustrated by the persistent clouds over their murky island, have taken advantage of this "radio window" and are busily developing the brand-new science of radio astronomy.