Understood. I’ve been to the VLA in real life. I actually have a mouse pad that says “NRAO” with a big picture of the VLA on it. I thought that NRAO was solely comprised of the VLA, but apparently it is not:
- The VLA – Socorro, NM
- ALMA – Atacama desert, Chile
- The VLBA (an array of telescopes spread over a large geographic distance):
- St. Croix – U.S. Virgin Islands
- Hancock – New Hampshire
- North Liberty – Iowa
- Fort Davis – Texas
- Los Alamos – New Mexico
- Pie Town – New Mexico
- Kitt Peak – Arizona
- Owens Valley – California
- Brewster – Washington
- Mauna Kea – Hawaii
Looks like the Green Bank telescope is no longer on the list. So if not the VLA, I wonder if it refers to another one of these telescopes. (Mauna Kea is separately called out, so it’s not that one.)