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September 13, 2024

Moonrise over the Very Large Array

The NSF Very Large Array at dusk with the moon rising.

[The NSF Very Large Array is a facility of the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory, supported under NSF award AST 1647378.]

Learn more about the VLA. (Date of image: 2023; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Sept. 13, 2024)

Credit: Bettymaya Foott, NRAO/AUI/NSF (available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported )

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