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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. EU-UK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    LOFAR has delivered its first EU-UK radio 'pictures.'

    What the hell is "EU-UK" supposed to mean? Did the Conservatives pass a bill without anyone noticing or something?

    1. Re:EU-UK? by lxs · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The Great British tradition of considering themselves superior to and different from the rest of the world. (To be fair, that is mostly an English trait)

  2. Re:my prediction by Confusador · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To be fair, it's probably differently fascinating than we hope.

  3. Re:my prediction by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It couldn't be much weirder than the japanese stuff.

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