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Ep. 632: Building Images: Optical vs Radio

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Using a Radio Disk, You're Getting a Better View

Murchison is a huge radio telescope project in the desert. It has 64 separate telescopes acting as one, and they're allo working together. They come in basically small groups of something that looks like a portal nightmare video game or horror story. And this allows it to get a better view with less 'noise', which is not scientifically correct.

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