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an interferometric telescope that combines signals from antennas spread over several kilometers to achieve extraordinary angular resolution. "This allows us to resolve structures as small as a ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's ...

Elsbach Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1987). M.Sc ...