You'll definitely have to! We have some new things since then including a recently updated Visitor Center & Gift Shop, not to mention the cool #ngVLA prototype antenna sitting out back 👀

Clamoring all around. We get excited about science, okay!

Awesome photos! Have you been out to the VLA again since that 1998 pilgrimage? 📡

Astronomers are nothing if not literal in their naming of instruments 📡

📸 2: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and NRAO representatives holding the signed Letter of Intent. Credit: L. Zapata

📸 1: Group photo from the Mexican Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI) and NRAO consultation meeting. Credit: L. Zapata

📸 2: Galaxy Y1 and its surroundings as seen by James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCAM (in blue and green) and by ALMA (in red). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA (JWST), T. Bakx/ALMA (ESO/NRAO/NAOJ)

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain), J. D’Silva (U. Western Australia), A. Koekemoer (STScI), J. Summers & R. Windhorst (ASU), and H. Yan (U. Missouri)

📸 1: Glowing deep red from the distant past: Galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled in this image from James Webb Space Telescope).

Can't join us in-person? Watch a recording of the lecture here: youtu.be/2TsioD2OCW0

The antennas will be able to all operate together as a single array, or be divided into subarrays to optimize the use of observing time for specific use cases.

Learn more: ngvla.nrao.edu

244 of the proposed dishes will be 18m in diameter, like the prototype antenna pictured above, while an additional 19 6m dishes will make up a short-spacing array at the heart of the telescope.