I love traveling rural New Mexico! It is one of my biggest thrills as a circuit preacher, seeing all the Godly awesome sights of this great state. I have taken many pictures on my way to Reserve, NM over the last 5 years, including this one of the Array between Magdalena and Datil.
The Very Long Baseline Array, a group of radio telescopes that spans thousands of miles and is remotely operated between Magdalena and Datil, NM, just took a very long measurement of the galaxy we live in.
The VLBA directly measured a span of 66,000 light-years from Earth across the Milky Way’s center to a star-forming area near the edge of the other side, almost double the previous measurement record of an object in our galaxy.