Very Long Baseline Array Dish

The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Dish at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF's NOIRLab. The Kitt Peak VLBA dish is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's greater VLBA interferometer. The array consists of 10 identical antennas, separated by distances from 200 kilometers to transcontinental 8600 kilometers (with the longest baseline between Maunakea, Hawai’i and St. Croix, Virgin Islands).

Credit:

KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos

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Release date:June 20, 2023, 2:10 p.m.
Duration:20 s
Frame rate:29.97

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