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A 36-km diameter radio telescope consisting of 27 individual dishes arranged in a Y shape. Featured
in the films 2001 and Contact (the latter half).
http://www.vla.nrao.edu/
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Submillimeter Array (SMA)
An eight element submillimeter interferometer being constructed on the summit of Mauna Kea in
Hawaii.
http://sma-www.harvard.edu/
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Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC)
The main purpose is to take part in observations at high angular resolution of faint sources of
cosmic natural and artificial radiation. Overview, photographs, staff, papers, news, and related
links. In Latvia.
http://www.virac.lv/
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Atacama Large Millimetre Array Project (ALMA)
An array with a collecting area of up to 10,000 square meters. With baselines foreseen to extend
to 10 Km, the angular resolution provided by the new instrument will be that of a diffraction
limited 4m optical telescope.
http://www.alma.nrao.edu/
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Effelsberg Telescope
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, the 100 m antenna of Effelsberg in Bonn,
Germany, operated since August 1972.
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/effelsberg/index_e.html
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NARO)
Research facility of National Science Foundation, operates many radio telescope observatories.
http://www.nrao.edu/
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Metsähovi Radio Observatory
A research institute of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
http://kurp-www.hut.fi/
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The Very Small Array (VSA)
in Tenerife (Canary Islands). Designed to study fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background
(CMB) thought to originate from the period immediately following the big bang. Operated by
Cambridge and Manchester Universities (UK).
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/vsa/
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James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
A 15-meter diameter, submillimeter spectrum telescope. Situated near the summit of Mauna Kea, Big
island, Hawaii.
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/home.html
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Jodrell Bank - Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories (NRAL)
NRAL at Jodrell Bank are a part of the University of Manchester's Department of Physics and
Astronomy. The Laboratories are home to the Lovell Telescope and the MERLIN & VLBI National
Facility which is operated by the University on behalf of PPARC.
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/
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ATNF - Australia Telescope National Facility
Operates the Australia Telescope, a set of radio telescopes in New South Wales. These telescopes
are used, individually or together, to study objects in the Universe ranging from the remains of
dead stars to entire galaxies.
http://wwwatnf.atnf.csiro.au/
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Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)
CalTech radio observatory.
http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/
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University of Tasmania Radio Observatories
Two radio observatories run by the physics department: Mount Pleasant Observatory, near Hobart,
Tasmania and Ceduna Observatory, South Australia.
http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/observatories/
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Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT)
http://icarus.uom.ac.mu/
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MOST
The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/astrop/most/
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Cavendish Astrophysics Homepage
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/
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The University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/
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Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis
http://radio.uindy.edu/radio/
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KOSMA Home Page (University of Cologne)
http://www.ph1.uni-koeln.de/kosma.html
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Observatorio Astronomico Nacional
National Astronomical Observatory of Spain
http://www.oan.es/
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Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
http://www.nfra.nl/jive
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The Onsala Space Observatory Home Page
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/
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Radio Astronomy and SETI - Big Ear Radio Observatory
This Kraus-type radio telescope, larger than three football fields, was famous for the Wow! Signal
and for the longest-running SETI project.
http://www.bigear.org/
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Australia Telescope Compact Array Home Page
http://wwwnar.atnf.csiro.au/
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Deep Space Network (DSN)
NASA's worldwide antenna network to support the exploration of the solar system.
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/index.html
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NRAO Very Long Baseline Array
http://www.nrao.edu/vlba/html/VLBA.html
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FCRAO Home Page
http://donald.phast.umass.edu/~fcrao/
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Arecibo Observatory
The largest radio telescope in the world.
http://www.naic.edu/
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National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
India
http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in
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DRAO Home Page
Contact Information
http://www.drao.nrc.ca/
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BIMA Home Page
This is the main page for the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA)
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/
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Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)
A 10.4-meter diameter, submillimeter spectrum telescope. Situated at the top of Mauna Kea, Big
island, Hawaii.
http://www.submm.caltech.edu/cso/
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