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Can Very Long Baseline Interferometry Be Done Between the Earth and the Moon?

Yes. In fact, just such a project has been proposed to build an autonomous remote-controlled radio observatory on the…

No, in fact. That honor belongs to the VLA’s cousin, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), which can achieve…

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) operates as a phased array, which means that all of the individual dipole antennas…

Probably a good place to start is the wikipedia page which contains a list of radio telescopes around the…

The Starshade project is an adaptation of a technique used on ground-based telescopes called “coronagraphic imaging”, which block-out the…

In fact, a very nice review of Coded Aperture Imaging in high-energy astrophysics was published earlier this year by…

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