Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Haystack Observatory

The MIT Haystack observatory is about an hour outside of Boston. The dish antenna inside the radome (a golf ball like structure but it only repeats about 3 times) measures 37 meters in diameter (over 100 feet). Scientists operate the giant antenna (dish) in the building under the radome. Many experients take place here, for example: "one of the more impressive ideas presented by the speakers involved masers, which glow inside large molecular clouds. Their use is a very clever way to map movement of the gases in distant nebula and galaxies."

MIT Haystack Observatory — http://www.haystack.edu

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