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LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running

Posted by timothy on from the can-we-call-this-a-meta-telescope? dept.

HansonMB writes with this bit from Motherboard: "Back in September, Motherboard ventured into the English countryside to listen to the universe. There lives a brand new piece of Europe's already-massive Low Frequency Radio Array radio telescope: a clever EU-wide installation that uses low-tech antennas and supercomputer-power data processing to transform into a giant mega-telescope, absorbing cosmic radio waves from the full sky." That was then; now, says the article, "In the past month, using signals from the new station, LOFAR has delivered its first EU-UK radio 'pictures.'"

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  1. Not only that, but . . . by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only is LOFAR up and running, but it beat out the competing project HINEAR, in record time!

  2. my prediction by deathcow · · Score: 4, Funny

    LOFAR will find a stream of information from an extraterrestrial source. When we decode it, we'll find that it's archives of extraterrestrial warez.

    1. Re:my prediction by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      LOFAR will find a stream of information from an extraterrestrial source. When we decode it, we'll find that it's archives of extraterrestrial warez.

      at which point the MPAA will be sueing the whole galaxy...

  3. Re:EU-UK? by pipatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    So not only did the conservatives remove UK from the EU, they now cut it off from europe and let it free to roam in the atlantic ocean?

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  4. Re:Good.. by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The '70s just called. They want their sense of humor back.

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  5. "LOFAR". ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, if it's " low frequency radio array telescope ", wouldn't it be "LOFART"?

    Don't blame me, but they're the ones who chose the name, I'm just sayin'.