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...saying it was capable of detecting faint signals from almost as far back as the Big Bang. The LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) consists of 25,000 small antennas measuring between 50 centimetres and two metres across, instead of a traditional large dish, said Femke Boekhorst of the Netherlands Radioastronomy Institute.
 
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3 posted on 06/13/2010 8:14:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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Do they aim it at anything? Is it possible to aim it? Or is it just aimless research?


5 posted on 06/13/2010 8:34:01 AM PDT by bigheadfred (I said free association. Not freely associate.)
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