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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @10:00PM 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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Re:Larger than the VLBA? by Bucc5062 · 2011-02-23 00:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Are you sure you have a current geek card? Have you boned up and passed the test for required /. memes? Do you live in a basement?
Try this, "I for one welcome our FAR seeing overlords". If that makes sense then contact cowboy neal and demand access. If not, keep studying.

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