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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...

Most home net users would love to have a link that can handle gigabits of data every second. But for some folks such high speeds are simply too slow. Some science experiments can generate so much data that it still takes hours to send the information across the net so it can start to be analysed. Technologies like the Grid look set to help get the data to where it needs to be and fast net providers are looking at better ways to get data moving. Terabyte troubles One of the recent developments in radio astronomy involves linking up a...