Welcome to the Very Large Array

Astronomer Rick Perley welcomes us to the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array site in central New Mexico and tells us a bit about its history and current status.
Discover more about The Very Large Array (VLA) on our website:
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Take a virtual tour of the observatory and its surroundings:
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[@m6h3r]

dude, seeing these things with your own eyes is magical.

[@Engineer921]

Voices of The Void 🗣🔥

[@lucasvidz9488]

You can see they put a lot of thought into the name

[@alaskajdw]

Cool thanks

[@mrbanditoxyz]

I went to NMT while they were building the VLA, and have been on the back-stage your 4 times. I had a girlfriend whos father was the Site Manager when they were building the VLA. This is a great use of tax money. Also, there is a laser on Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer that is reflected back from the VLA to measure the expansion/contraction of the Earth. Basically, you can watch the Earth "breath".

[@GamerplayerWT]

Where’s Jodi Foster?!

[@richardconnold5207]

Where's Heywood Floyd, and Moisevitch?

[@mrbanditoxyz]

The visitor center has a lot of pictures from the movie. BTY, the film people made an exact copy of the control room on a sound stage - down to scrapes, etc on the tables. - made it much easier to film.

[@ConnorUsef-go9hz]

Solar sailor would be fun

[@ConnorUsef-go9hz]

Large array dish is in ottawa

[@mrbanditoxyz]

The radio scopes are all connected so they can use the scopes logically as a single scope.

[@ConnorUsef-go9hz]

Custer's last filling

[@rickson5506]

Rick

[@gwugluud]

And it hasn't detected the faintest indication of advanced civilization during all this time, and during the next 50 years, it will continue to find absolutely no radio signals of artificial origin.

[@mrmister8039]

You’re quite the pathetic mind.

[@mrbanditoxyz]

lack of data doesn't mean other civilizations don't exist.

[@richardconnold5207]

Now it's getting chilly.
This is wery bad for my asthma.

[@jamg7119]

2010 😆