Timelapse: Construction of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope

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Timelapse: Construction of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope

Timelapse: Construction of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope

This is a time-lapse video composed of individual photos taken daily from the same position during the construction of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, from February, 1993, through July, 2000. The Green Bank Telescope is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

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