VLA Today

VLA Today is a window onto the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array — the radio telescope on the Plains of San Agustín near Socorro, New Mexico — and the next-generation VLA (ngVLA) prototype antenna nearby, now in active testing and calibration ahead of the full array to come.

You'll find a 24/7 livestream of the array, with live weather, array configuration, and observation data on screen, so you always know what the VLA is observing. Daily timelapses condense each day at the site, sunrise to starfield, for both the VLA and the ngVLA prototype.

No schedules, no highlights. Just the VLA quietly observing the universe, day and night.

Webcam feeds and observation data courtesy of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), a facility of the U.S. National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. Weather data provided by Weather Underground.

VLA Today is an independent channel and is not an official product of NRAO or the NSF.