The Karl Jansky Very Large Array is located about 40 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. It is a radio astronomy facility consisting of 27 moveable radio telescope dishes. It is on the San Augustin Plain, surrounded by mountain ranges to reduce the amount of human-made radio interference. For more information, visit https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vla/
Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) near Magdalena, New Mexico. The glowing areas on the horizon is the light pollution from Magdalena (left), 21 miles away, and Socorro (right), 42 miles distant. Processed with DXO Pure Raw 6.1 and Adobe Lightroom 15.3.
Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) near Magdalena, New Mexico. The glowing areas on the horizon is the light pollution from Magdalena (left), 21 miles away, and Socorro (right), 42 miles distant. Processed with DXO Pure Raw 6.1 and Adobe Lightroom 15.3.