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3 unusual facts about Very Long Baseline Array


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The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a continent-wide radio telescope system offering the greatest resolving power of any astronomical instrument operational today.

Brewster, Washington

The radio telescope located in Brewster is the northernmost of ten dishes comprising the Very Long Baseline Array.

Los Alamos, New Mexico

The radio telescope located in Los Alamos is one of ten dishes composing the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).


Andromeda Galaxy

Discovered through a data collected by the ESA's XMM-Newton probe, and subsequently observed by NASA's Swift and Chandra, the Very Large Array, and the Very Long Baseline Array, the microquasar was the first observed within the Andromeda Galaxy and the first outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.


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