Not satisfied with the VLA, radio astronomers have designed a clever method for combining data from widely separated radio telescopes. The key to very long baseline interferometry is to be able to correllate the exact instant of each observation. The availability of cesium atomic clock standards to radio telescopes now allows the antennas spread across the Earth to act as a single telecope 8000 miles in diamter.

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