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Date: Mar 15 22:52 2012

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Korean connection makes an 8000-km telescope Australian and Korean radio telescopes have been linked together for the first time, forming a system acting as a gigantic telescope more than 8000 kilometres across and with 100 times the resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope. Australia has been making similar linkups with Japan and China for many years, and now is also doing initial tests with telescopes in India. The astronomers targeted a galaxy that emits strongly in radio waves - a source called J0854+2006, which was chosen because it was suitable for the tests. Read more __________________

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Date: Feb 7 23:36 2009

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Korean, Chinese and Japanese astronomers will join hands to make a 6,000 km-diameter radio telescope, the world's largest. Quoting Shen Zhiqiang, a researcher at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Science, Xinhua said the radio telescope network of the three countries will reach the Ogasawara Islands of Japan to the east, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the west, and Kunming, China to the south. Read more __________________

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