Prototype for Long Wavelength Array Sees First Light

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Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky as seen by a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be constructed in southwestern New Mexico. The images show emissions from the center of our Galaxy, a supermassive black hole, and the remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova over 300 years ago.

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[antoniseb]

This should be an interesting project. I suspect that the first light is interesting only in that it shows that it works. I imagine that the information about the ionosphere will be the most interesting first results.