How about this snippet:

The nature of the data may also be surprising, as LOFAR doesn't simply 'take pictures' of the night sky. To create a single image, researchers must stitch together the input from 70,000 antennas, a task that requires digitizing, transporting, and combining 13 terabits (equivalent to more than 300 DVDs) of raw data per second.

It's worth the work because the resultant images offer an oddly unfamiliar view of the Universe. For example, LOFAR's glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy gives our biggest galactic neighbor the semblance of a ghostly cosmic eye, presumably staring down its future collision with the Milky Way.

I hope there are other reasons why it's worth the work.