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Prototype for long wavelength array sees first light

Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky from a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be constructed in southwestern New Mexico. The images show emissions from the center of our galaxy, a supermassive black hole, and the remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova over 300 years ago.

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