New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...
The European Southern Observatory bills its Very Large Telescope array as the world's most advanced optical instrument. Each of the four Unit telescopes, boasting mirrors 27 feet (8.2 meters ...
The favored scheme was an array of relatively small dishes (antennas), with a nearly-random arrangement on the ground extending over about 1 km. This provides a very high-quality beam shape (the small ...
the future looks bright as radio astronomers prepare for new generations of telescope networks, like the NRAO's ngVLA (next generation Very Large Array) and the ngEHT (The next generation Event ...
North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and Coralville Lake. But it’s not a satellite. It’s a radio telescope that makes up ...
"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies ...
It is the world’s largest radio telescope array operating at microwave frequencies. It’s also where Jodie Foster heard an alien signal in the 1997 movie “Contact”. But now the Jansky Very Large Array ...