Public release date: 7-Oct-2004 Contact: Julia Maddock julia.maddock@pparc.ac.uk 44-179-344-2094 Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council Radio astronomers remove the blindfold -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cambridge telescope -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full size image available here UK radio astronomers at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, working with colleagues from Europe and the USA, have demonstrated a new technique that will revolutionise the way they observe. To create the very best quality images of the sky, they routinely combine data from multiple telescopes from around the world – a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). They have now combined this with the power of dedicated internet...