Very Large Array

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Very Large Array

n. Abbr. VLA

A Y-shaped pattern of radio telescopes in New Mexico with a maximum radius of 21 kilometers (13 miles).

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Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

In a first, hydrogen signal detected from galaxy far, far away

The 27 dish-shaped radio antennae that make up the Very Large Array move on tracks and tilt to pick up the clearest signal coming from the object they're observing.

Hands-on science

Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, And A Quasar-Spangled Universe: The Discoveries Of The Very Large Array Telescope by Karen Taschek is an informative and easy-to-follow study of the Very Large Array (VLA) as constructed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in in San Augustin, New Mexico.

Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, And A Quasar-Spangled Universe

Follow-up observations with the Very Large Array radio telescope near Socorro, N.

Recipe for a heavyweight: making a massive star

For example, a LUN may be one entire array, or a very large array may be divided into two or three LUNs.

New horizons in Enterprise Storage: NAS gateway precursors SAN/NAS convergence. (Cover story)

Herzog worked on the Very Large Array research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory while at New Mexico State.

CSUN'S CHAIRMAN OF ASTRONOMY MOURNED

Projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory were all pushed forward by a decadal report.

U.S. Astronomers Choose Top Projects for Coming Decade

With Los Alamos National Labs to the north; White Sands, New Mexico Tech, and the Very Large Array to the south; and Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico has a long tradition of discovery and development that has led the world into new eras and realities.

Cyco.Net Retains CCG for Investor Relations

and his colleagues relied on the Very Large Array (VLA), a network of radio telescopes near Socorro, N.

Pebbles from heaven: tracking planets in the making

The Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Sorroro, N.

Superstar Search

College and his colleagues recently discovered the radio bursts while analyzing a survey of the Milky Way's center taken in 2002 with the Very Large Array radio telescopes near Socorro, N.