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5‐km radiotelescope completed at Cambridge

FEB 01, 1973

DOI: 10.1063/1.3127946

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One of the major problems that radioastronomers have faced is the lack of a radiotelescope with resolution as good as that obtained with optical telescopes. Now, with the inauguration of the 5‐km radiotelescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory at Cambridge, England, they will be able to study radio sources with a resolution of up to one arc sec.

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Volume 26, Number 2

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