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well,both telescopes let you look into the ground into the inner core and you see deep in he atmosphere which is space.

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The Very Large Array is an array of radio-telescopes, i.e. it detects radio emissions from stars and similar.

An optical telescope as its name suggests, collects visible light.

The similarity is that increasing the aperture increases the radiation-gathering power by a square-law.

In an optical telescope this is achieved by a larger mirror (or lens but most large telescopes are reflecting.)

The VLA uses a "synthetic aperture" to gain the advantages of increasing its gathering area without the cost and complexity of building a single, very large dish.

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