Very Large Array

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. a set of 27 radio telescopes arranged in a Y -shaped pattern, each arm of which is approximately 13 miles (21 km) long, and located near Socorro, N.M.; computer-processed data from the set provide high-resolution images of distant astronomical objects. VLA

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Example Sentences

A team led by Sarah Burke-Spolaor of West Virginia University took to the sky with Hubble and the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico.

From New York Times

Astronomers monitored them for the next year and a half with NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Very Large Array in New Mexico and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa.

From New York Times

Such arrays are being planned now and include the Square Kilometer Array in Africa and the Next Generation Very Large Array in North America.

From Scientific American

Astronomers use the Very Large Array to observe natural radiowaves from distant stars and planets.

From Washington Times

The image was produced by combining data from multiple observations with the Very Large Array's giant dish antennas arranged in various configurations to show both large structures and finer details within the galaxy.

From Fox News