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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 13 Jun 2014

    There’s a very large array of radio telescopes in New Mexico. As seen in the film Contact. We call it the “Very Large Array"

    6:06 AM - 13 Jun 2014
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      2. Meredith Rawls‏ @merrdiff 13 Jun 2014
        Replying to @neiltyson

        @neiltyson Technically it's the Jansky Very Large Array now! cc @TheNRAO

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      3. NRAO‏ @TheNRAO 13 Jun 2014
        Replying to @merrdiff

        @merrdiff @neiltyson Its full name is indeed the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, but Director says keep on referring to it as just VLA.

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      1. Pat Rodriguez  💀‏ @patthewanderer 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson You are so sassy today.

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      1. D. R. Dick‏ @granitevoter 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson @DMW_JD2014 ..and "Independence Day" http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Very%20Large%20Array%2C%20Socorro%2C%20New%20Mexico%2C%20USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_5 …

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      1. Isabel Ricke‏ @izzy_ricke 13 Jun 2014
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        “@neiltyson: There’s a very large array of radio telescopes in New Mexico.We call it the “Very Large Array"” @abbypetersonn #doubletarp

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      1. Rocky Mountain Mike‏ @RockyMntnMike 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson My visit there in 1992, compliments of inspiration from Carl.pic.twitter.com/sFr83jL6Ij

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      2. The VLA‏ @VLArray 13 Jun 2014
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        Or Very Lovely Antennas, as we think of ourselves. “@neiltyson: … array of radio telescopes in NM. ...We call it the “Very Large Array"”

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      1. John O'Meara‏ @astronomeara 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson Europe plans to build an extremely large telescope named the extremely large telescope

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      1. Michael Crassweller‏ @zoomba 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson @bccasteel This is why I think its so hard to get science funding. Need cooler names! Forget the VLA call it Alien Detection Net

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      2. Tim Ballisty‏ @IrishEagle 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson My house has a backyard. We call it the Neil deGrasse Tyson. I know. It's confusing. Damn non-astrophysics lexicon!

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      3. Anthony Simpson‏ @TheGrizzleGrams 13 Jun 2014
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        @IrishEagle @neiltyson You deserve a 'Bravo' for that! Took a while but was well worth it! (;-)

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      1. DDP‏ @NorCalDD 13 Jun 2014
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        “@neiltyson: There’s a very large array of radio telescopes in New Mexico. As seen in Contact. We call it “Very Large Array"”@OliviaClare 😘

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      1. Barry  🐻‏ @bmerer 13 Jun 2014
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        There was a B52’s song called, “There’s a Moon in the Sky called the Moon.” @neiltyson @JoshDinner

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      1. Jaime Creixems‏ @webjac 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson MACHOs - massive astrophysical compact halo objects This has to be the most badass name for something in astrophysics

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      1. Ann of Green Tweets‏ @alstarkey 13 Jun 2014
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        Candidate for #noConCERN? MT .@neiltyson There’s a “Very Large Array" of radio telescopes in New Mexico. As seen in the film Contact...

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      1. Nancy L. Perez‏ @np74656 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson There's a large pile of clothes on my floor. It's called laundry! :-)

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      1. Michael Jewell‏ @gluino78 13 Jun 2014
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        @neiltyson we're so clever with names! I mean we have this large collider we use to smash hadrons, we call it the large hadron collider....

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