World's Largest Network Radio Telescope Powers Up

If one telescope is good, 35 is most assuredly better. That's the number of networked radio telescopes that just powered up to observe 243 quasars across the universe, according to Space.com.

The goal, in what amounts to a record-breaking effort: "improve the precision of the reference time frame that today's scientists use to measure positions in the sky," as well as possibly enhance future Earth...
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