Nobeyama Radio Observatory

198245 m dishNAOJ

LocationJapan

Year1982

Size45 m dish

OperatorNAOJ

About Nobeyama Radio Observatory

Home to a 45 m millimeter-wave dish, for years the largest of its kind. Produced major surveys of molecular gas across the Milky Way. The site also hosted the Nobeyama Millimeter Array, an early interferometer of the 1980s. Now run as an open university facility.

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