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COAST was the first long-baseline interferometer to obtain high-resolution images of the surfaces of stars other than Sun (although the surfaces of other stars had previously been imaged at lower resolution using
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Part of COAST and the exterior of its bunker in June 2014
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Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Cambridgeshire
East of England
52°09′50″N 0°02′28″E / 52.164°N 0.041°E / 52.164; 0.041
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astronomical interferometer
optical telescope
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www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/
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Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope is located in the United Kingdom

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astronomical interferometer
aperture synthesis
angular resolution
arcsecond
Hubble Space Telescope
stars
aperture masking interferometry
William Herschel Telescope
John E. Baldwin
Cavendish Astrophysics Group
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
Cambridgeshire

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