Science news articles about 'virtual telescope'

... can be thousands of miles apart. The signals from these radio dishes are combined to create a "virtual" telescope with the same resolving power as a single telescope as large as the distance between ...

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Virtual telescopes are becoming more and more like video games, letting you zoom out from Earth to explore a 3-D universe.

... have succeeded in combining three telescopes in Hawaii using advanced computer techniques. This virtual telescope, with a diameter of 782 metres, studies the formation of new stars and planets using ...

A new virtual telescope is the most powerful tool scientists have ever had.

... moved to different positions, creating more new interferometric configurations, so that astronomers could emulate a virtual telescope approximately 100 metres across and build up an image. "Obtaining ...

Computer users can now explore space with the world's best telescopes