March 12, 2013

Largest Telescope Begins Operating In Chile

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292165/Earths-largest-telescope-set-switch--reveal-came-from.html

The £1billion 'time machine' which could finally reveal mysteries of the universe: World's largest telescope will finally be turned on tomorrow
Made up of 66 giant antennae which gather faint radio waves from space for processing by a supercomputer
ALMA is situated in the Chile desert at 16,400ft – roughly half the cruising height of a jumbo jet and almost four times higher than Ben Nevis
By collecting radio waves rather than optical light, ALMA can look through the dense dust clouds of deep space
By FIONA MACRAE SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:51 EST, 12 March 2013

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