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Very Large Array (VLA) / ; Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) ... Dedicated in 1980, the Very Large Array (VLA) has been an extraordinarily productive scientific instrument. Astronomers from around the world use it to study objects from our Solar System to the edges of the known Universe, billions of light-years from the Earth.
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Very Large Array - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Very Large Array: melodic, "big sky" indie rock ... Named after the radio telescope cluster in New Mexico, Very Large Array was founded by two brothers after they moved from Milwaukee to L.A. in the mid 90s. With John Gripentrog on vocals and Steve Gripentrog on guitar, VLA was a tight little unit for a short time,
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Explanation: Pictured above is one of the world's premiere radio astronomical observatories: The Very Large Array (VLA). Each antenna dish is as big as a house (25 meters across) and mounted on railroad tracks.
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The Very Large Array (VLA), one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin 80 km (50 miles) miles west of Socorro, New Mexico.
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The Very Large Array or VLA is the world's largest radio telescope. 27 individual dishes, each 82 feet in diameter. The dishes form a "Y" and are movable along a special pair of railroad tracks to create an effective diameter of from 2000 feet to 19 miles.
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The Very Large Array (VLA) is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and weighs about 230 tons.
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