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What is stopping Event Horizon Telescope the size of the Earth’s orbit?
There is a proposal to include a radio sensor in a telescope going to the Sun-Earth L2, getting 120x improvement in angular resolution to EHT. Knowing nothing about interferometry, it seems pretty ...
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Are there any space-based observatories that use interferometry?
Ground-based interferometers such as ALMA have enabled many discoveries. It seems like sending a fleet of small telescopes would be feasible (smaller telescopes are easier to send into space than ...
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Giant variation of the proposed eLISA mission using reflectors on Earth and the Moon possible?
I was thinking about the proposed ESA mission eLISA, which is essentially a space version of the LIGO experiment, and it occurred to me that trailing three satellites behind the Earth's orbit seemed ...
