Enormous Telescope to Be Completed Soon

Reported by Softpedia on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 (on November 18, 2009)

The volcanic dome of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, has been recognized for many years as one of the most suited locations for building ground-based telescopes. Its unique vantage point allows telescopes built here to make out details of the Universe that can only be seen from only a handful of other places around the world. As such, it is here that the new Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be constructed. The observatory is among the first in a series of super-advanced, Earth-based facilities that will innovate the field of astronomy in the next five to 15 years, making previously unknown objects visible. According to Wired, the gigantic instrument will have an aperture of no less than 30 meters, or a whopping 100 feet. This will allow it to produce images with nine times the current collection power of the twin Keck Telescopes, and also to create photos with 12 times the resolution the Hubble Space Telescope is currently capable of, after its overhaul. The entire project, which costs less than $1 billion, is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018, its operators announce. “As we learn more, the cosmos become more mysterious and require[s] more human ingenuity to get to the next step,” Jerry Nelson says. He is a physicist at the University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC), and also a project scien...

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