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The VLA
Published on 27 Jul 2007 at 10:34 am.
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Filed under astronomy, observatories, radio astronomy, wonders.
My next choice for one of the Seven Wonders of Astronomy is another radio observatory. This one is different, though, from Arecibo. Instead of a single large telescope, the Very Large Array, near Socorro, New Mexico, is a collection of 27 separate radio telescope antennae.
The Very Large Array (VLA) is operated by the National Radio […]
Arecibo Observatory
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 11:59 pm.
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The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, aka the Arecibo Observatory, is the site of the largest single dish radio telescope (or any other telescope, for that matter) on Earth, and I wrote about it once before. The facility is located just outside of the town of Arecibo, in Puerto Rico. The telescope’s dish […]
The World’s Largest Telescope
Published on 7 Feb 2006 at 7:31 pm.
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Filed under radio astronomy, telescopes, travel.
I know that this isn’t a travel blog, but there are several people from the airlines who read the blog, and so that has gotten me to thinking of having an occasional astronomical travel destination. There are many places around the world that have astronomical sites. Some of these are far off the beaten trail, […]
