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Nature 406, 665-666 (17 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35021272

The sky's the limit as radio telescope array is approved

Steve Nadis

Small might be beautiful, but to astronomers bigger is often better. This is certainly true in radio astronomy, where international teams have now approved two giant arrays — the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).