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Alma Telescope launched!

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  • 13-03-2013 5:05pm
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    ZeRoY
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    The £1billion 'time machine' which could finally reveal mysteries of the universe: World's largest telescope will finally be turned on today.

    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

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    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292165/Earths-largest-telescope-set-switch--reveal-came-from.html#ixzz2NR6X817Q


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    Justin1982
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    Thats mental that they have a lorry moving the dishes around the site like chess pieces.


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    Tomk1
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    Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the Birr Radio Telescope for Ireland, as Jocelyn Bell-Burnell discovered Pulsars from radio Telescope data, & as optical scopes are not suited to Ireland for scientific study or much use as deep space observation is apt at lower frequencies, it's the one thing we can do here, by networking with the Merlin array in the UK.


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