Introducing... The Very Large Array

Located in New Mexico between the towns of Datil and Magdalena is the Very Large Array (VLA). The VLA is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory. It is comprised of twenty-eight 25-meter radio telescopes (27 of which are operational while one is always rotating through maintenance) deployed in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer.

An astronomical interferometer or telescope array is a set of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a single telescope to provide higher resolution images of astronomical objects such as stars, nebulas and galaxies.

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