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THE survey of extra-terrestrial radiation, made at 1.89 m. with the 218-ft. paraboloid at Jodrell Bank, gave the position and intensity of 23 localized sources1 between declinations N. 38° and N. 68°. The distribution of the intense sources showed a marked concentration close to the galactic plane, and it was concluded that they represented a class of rare objects in the Galaxy. A similar concentration has been found by Mills2 from observations in the southern hemisphere. An attempt has now been made to measure the apparent angular width of these sources, and the present communication gives the preliminary results.
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HANBURY BROWN, R., PALMER, H. & THOMPSON, A. Galactic Radio Sources of Large Angular Diameter. Nature 173, 945–946 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173945a0
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