Spectr-R Helps Create Telescope with 350,000km Aperture

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and the Astro Space Center in Moscow have published the interferometric results from a joint observation between the radio telescope aboard the Spektr-R satellite and the Effelsberg 100-m receiver. With a distance between them of 350,000 kms, a resolution of 40 micro arc seconds was acheived.

The target was BL Lacertae, an Active Galactic Nucleus approximately 900 million light years away.

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