Michael A. Stecker
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The Very Large Array (VLA) is a
radio astronomy observatory located on the
Plains of San Augustin (elevation: 6970 ft), some fifty miles
west of
Socorro,
New Mexico,
USA on
U.S. Route 60. It is part of the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Each dish is
82-feet in diameter and there are 27 of them in a Y-shaped
configuration that moves on railroad tracks. |
.Photos of the
Very Large Array |