Friday, April 29, 2005

Huge Radio Telescope Boasts Supercomputer Brain

by Stephen Battersby NewScientist.com, 28 Apr 2005 One of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is to be the brain of a revolutionary new radio telescope called LOFAR. The telescope will look back to the time of the very first stars, map our galaxy's magnetic field and perhaps discover the mysterious sources of high-energy cosmic rays. Read the article