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The Very Long Baseline Array is a series of ten radio antennas spread across the United States and its territories from St. Croix, the Virgin Islands, to Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The operations center for the array is located in Socorro, New Mexico. Astronomical data from the observations are recorded on digital tape at each antenna site. The tapes are then shipped to the Socorro Operations Center where they are correlated and the results sent to the scientists. For more information, see our VLBA overview page. You may also be interested in What's new.
   Take a virtual tour of the antenna sites.
   Take a tour of an antenna.
Array Operations Center   Take a tour of VLBA Operations
St. Croix antenna   Check out the weather at the VLBA sites
Picture of SN1993j   Visit our Image Gallery.
   Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy
 

What's New

        07/27/04:   Stellar Pair Shot Out from Its Birthplace: Astronomers Link Moving Microquasar to Star Cluster
        06/10/04:   Radio Telescopes Reveal Youngest Stellar Corpse
        04/01/04:   Radio Astronomers Lift "Fog" on Milky Way's Dark Heart
        01/05/04:   VLBA "Movie" Gives Scientists New Insights On Workings of Mysterious Microquasars


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