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Aerial View of the Antennas of the Long Wavelength Array station in New Mexico

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Long Wavelength Array - Aerial View

All 256 antennas of station LWA-1 of the Long Wavelength Array in Central New Mexico taken on April 1, 2010. The development of the Long Wavelength Array stations will proceed over several years. Construction for the second and third stations will begin in 2011. Eventually, the new telescope array will harness the power of more than 13,000 antennas.

Image credit: LWA Project (at UNM)