Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array: Famous radio telescope officially gets new name
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation into a new and vastly more powerful tool for science. The iconic Very Large Array (VLA) now is the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, honoring the founder of radio astronomy.