World’s largest radio telescope network goes live
NOV 18, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023854
Space.com : The world’s largest collection of radio telescopes is being tied together for 24 hours starting today to observe more than two hundred energetic galaxies known as quasars.During those 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will observe 243 distant quasars in an effort to improve the precision of the reference frame scientists use to measure positions in the sky.
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
