Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution

Posted by timothy on Monday October 4, 2004 @11:31PM from the peer-to-peer-peering dept.

satorchi writes " The Arecibo Observatory together with the European VLBI Network have used the internet to make a real-time transatlantic synthesis telescope. Data from the individual telescopes was transfered via the internet, and processed in real time by the central processing station at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe. 9 terabits were transfered during the 20 hour experiment, and the resulting synthesised telescope had a resolution of 20 milliarcseconds, about 5 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This level of detail is equivalent to picking out a small building on the surface of the Moon!"

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The real conspiracy by msgmonkey · 2004-10-05 00:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is that the moon landing conspiracy theorists will only accept being taken to the moon so they can see for themselves. Wake up and smell the carpet bagging, it's just a big scam for free moon tickets :-P
Pics1 by valjean78 · 2004-10-05 00:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This thread is useless without pics!