Near the village of Takahagi, Japan, two giant antennae installed in the early 1960s as part of the creation of the first Japanese telecommunications network, have a second life ... as observatories radio astronomy.
An unexpected partnership between a university and a village in 2007, it turned out when he learned that the telecommunications company converted to fiber optics, to close the two antennas. They found allies in Ibaraki University, who saw an opportunity to join an international network of observation of the cosmos, the Very Long Baseline Interferometry,
According to Science, this is not even the first time an old telecom antenna is "recycled" for radio-astronomy, and it will not be the last, as fiber optics spread throughout the world, edging out satellite communications.
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