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Nature 406, 816 (24 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35022718
Green Bank dish may be last of the giants
Colin Macilwain
The largest steerable, single-dish radiotelescope ever built will be dedicated this week at Green Bank, West Virginia, in a ceremony to be attended by astronomers, politicians and research agency chiefs.But the gargantuan Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — which is already six years late and tens of millions of dollars over budget — may mark the end of an era, as astronomy migrates from single-dish radiotelescopes to arrays of smaller instruments.
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