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Location: Nagano Prefecture, Japan; Year built: 1982; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Contribution to the study of star formation)

Location: New Mexico, USA; Year built: 1980; Renamed in 2012 in honor of Karl Jansky, the father of radio astronomy; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Observations leading to the discovery of complex molecules in space)

Location: New South Wales, Australia; Year built: 1961; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Identified quasars)

Location: Netherlands, with stations across Europe; Year built: 2010; Primary use: Low-frequency radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Advanced our understanding of low-frequency radio signals from space)

Location: West Virginia, USA; Year built: 2000; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Molecular clouds in other galaxies)

Location: Atacama Desert, Chile; Year built: 2011; Primary use: Observing the Universe in millimeter/submillimeter wavelengths (Notable discovery: Detailed images of protoplanetary disks)

Location: Westerbork, Netherlands; Year built: 1970; Primary use: Radio astronomy and interferometry (Notable discovery: Detailed studies of neutral hydrogen in galaxies)

Location: Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Year built: 1963; Primary use: Planetary radar and radio astronomy (Notable discovery: First binary pulsar)

Location: Northern Cape, South Africa; Year built: 2018; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: MeerKAT has produced detailed radio images of the center of the Milky Way)

Location: New South Wales, Australia; Year built: 1988; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: High-resolution studies of the Milky Way)

Location: Zelenchukskaya, Russia; Year built: 1974; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Observations of radio recombination lines)

Location: New Mexico, USA; Year built: 1980; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Cosmic microwave background fluctuations)

Location: Effelsberg, Germany; Year built: 1971; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Identified a number of millisecond pulsars)

Location: Space-based (Orbiting Earth); Year built: Launched in 2011, ceased operations in 2019; Primary use: Part of the RadioAstron space mission for very long baseline interferometry (Notable discovery: High-resolution imagery of astronomical objects)

Location: Guizhou Province, China; Year built: 2016; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: FAST has made numerous pulsar observations)

Location: Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA; Year built: 1979; Primary use: Optical and infrared astronomy (it is not a radio telescope but included for comparison)

Location: Pune, India; Year built: 1994; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Intergalactic atomic hydrogen)

Location: Australia and South Africa; Year built: Currently in early stages of construction; Primary use: Will be used for radio astronomy (Expected to make major discoveries in various areas, including dark energy and cosmic magnetism)

Location: Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK; Year built: 1957; Primary use: Radio astronomy (Notable discovery: Jodrell Bank was involved in tracking space probes at the dawn of the Space Age)