The PRIMARY Reason for Spreading Many Radio Telescopes Across a Large

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Multiple Choice

The PRIMARY reason for spreading many radio telescopes across a large area and combining the signals at a central station is to:

• A) produce much sharper images of radio sources.
• B) ensure that cloudy weather affects only a few of the telescopes, leaving the others to continue observing.
• C) avoid interference between signals from the separate telescopes.
• D) collect more radiation than would be possible with the same telescopes clustered together.

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