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The Very Long Baseline Array links 10 radio dishes stretching between which places?

The Virgin Islands and Hawaii.

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  1. New Mexico and Arizona
  2. The Virgin Islands and Hawaii ✔
  3. Chile and Australia

Why: The VLBA dishes are not wired together. Each records the incoming waves with precise timing, and computers combine the data later, giving resolution of 0.0001 arcseconds.

Huh, didn't know that: The VLBA was completed in 1993.

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Answer: The Virgin Islands and Hawaii. The VLBA dishes are not wired together. Each records the incoming waves with precise timing, and computers combine the data later, giving resolution of 0.0001 arcseconds.

  1. OpenStax Astronomy 2e, 6.4 Radio Telescopes openstax.org/books/astronomy-2e/pages/6-4-radio-telescopes
    made up of 10 individual telescopes stretching from the Virgin Islands to Hawaii
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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