35 Radio Observatories Link to Break Record

35 radio observatories will link together to form a telescope that spans the globe November 18th-19th. Image Credit: Victor Bobbett, APOD

 

 

Ever wondered what the largest telescope on the Earth is? Well, this coming Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the largest telescope ever assembled will take observations for a whole day. How big is the telescope? About the size of the whole Earth! 35 radio telescopes on 7 continents will link together for one whole day in an effort to observe distant quasars as part of an initiative to improve the reference frame that scientists use to measure positions in the sky.(...)
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