From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 07:30:17 PDT
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Astronomers create virtual radio telescope
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Posted: Wed, Oct 2 7:07 AM ET (1107 GMT)
An international group of astronomers have linked together
radio telescopes on three continents to create a virtual
telescope with the sharpest resolution of any telescope to
date. Astronomers combined simultaneous observations by
radio telescopes in Arizona, Massachusetts, Chile, Spain,
and Finland to create a single virtual telescope with a
resolution 3,000 times greater than the Hubble Space
Telescope: the equivalent of someone in New York being able
to observe dimples on a golf ball in Los Angeles.
Astronomers plan to use the virtual telescope to study how
active galaxies generate jets of high-speed particles.
Related Links:
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University of Arizona press release:
http://ali.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/1/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=6144&wosid=9xjjOzfDDCOQLNSY8dYRP0
MIT press release:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/telescope.html
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