The State - News from March 27, 1988
Astronomers from UC Davis and Columbia University have begun collecting data for the most detailed radio survey ever taken of the Milky Way. Using data collected by the Very Large Array telescope, a network of 27 mobile antennae on tracks that stretch along 20 miles of New Mexico desert, the stargazers hope to gain a better understanding of the nature of supernovas.
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