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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.

  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'.