Six Optical Telescopes Combined Into One

00Paddy writes: "Starstuff.org reports on how astronomers successfully combined the light from six independent telescopes to form a single, high-resolution image of a distant multiple-star system using interferometry techniques. The combined telescopes gives a effective mirror diameter of 430 meters, much bigger than any single mirror could be made. This technology will lead to images of sunspots of distant stars and maybe images Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant stars."