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ATACAMA OBSERVATORY
The world’s largest observatories are linked “arrays”
of radio telescopes such as the Atacama Large Millimeter
Array (ALMA) in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Here, 66
movable radio antennae have their signals combined
to generate the same detail as a single 10-mile
(16-km) telescope.
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