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| Very Long Baseline Array Vlba |
A network of radio telescopes in North America for very-long-baseline interferometry. It consists of ten antennas, distributed from Hawaii to St Croix in north-east Canada. The effective diameter is 8,000 kilometres 5,000 miles and the resolution attainable 0.2 milliseconds of arc.
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