In operation was the largest telescope in the world...!

The largest telescope in the world came into the weekend near the town of Assen in the northeast Netherlands. The telescope is able to detect faint radio signals so far away in space and time, reaching almost to the time of the original "Big Bang" of the universe. In the name LOFAR (Low Frequency Array), according to foreign news agencies, the telescope consists than 25,000 small antennas with a diameter half to two meters each, instead of one large "plate" as in traditional radio telescopes (eg, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the world's largest antenna of 305 meters). The antennas of the LOFAR , which is controlled by the Institute of Radioastronomy of the Netherlands, are spread not only across countries but also in other European countries (Germany, France, Britain and Sweden). If taken together these scattered small antennas, created a giant telescope with a diameter of about 1,000 kilometers.The data collected by the telescope Giant, will be sent for treatment to a super-computer at the University of Groningen and then transmitted to the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.