The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands is: an aperture synthesis interferometer that consists of a linear array of 14 antennas arranged on a 2.7 km East-West line. Um� So, aperture synthesis is when a collection of telescopes are banded together to achieve the same �resolving power � as an instrument the size of the entire collection. And an �interferometer� is, ah� best explained on the Interferometry Wikipedia page ! There�s
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