Very Large Array

Built in the 1970s by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and later named after Karl Guthe Jansky, the pioneer who first detected radio waves from the Milky Way, the Very Large Array rises from the New Mexico desert as one of humanity’s most ambitious listening posts.

The VLA is made up of 27 massive radio telescopes, each 82 feet wide, working together to catch the whispers of the universe signals from distant galaxies, black holes, and stellar nurseries billions of light years away.