Ideally
the telescope will gather 6 million gigabytes of data a year and some of its
main aims are to inform us about dark energy, dark matter, and the Kuiper belt
which is where Pluto resides. You might also call it a doomsday prevention
device as it will be used to track asteroids and other harmful space entities
that are close to earth.
The
most interesting thing about this project is that the data will be public so
anyone will be able to log in online and view the pictures. The location of the
telescope will be on top of the Cerro Pachon mountain in Northern Chile and
will begin being construction in 2014.Friday, April 27, 2012
NOW THAT IS A TELESCOPE post by Daniel Trowler
A
project that was conceived well over a decade ago in 1998 has gotten the go
ahead from the U.S. department of Energy. A giant 3.2 billion pixel telescope
is what scientists have in mind that will continuously take picture of our
universe for 10 years. Over the ten year span this super camera will create a
sort of time lapse picture show that will provide scientists will almost
limitless knowledge of the universe. This project is still in its first stages
and since it has the go ahead scientist will begin with the designs.
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When someone refers to a name like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Sir Isaac Newton a gong is sure to band. The awesome thoughts of our previous that modified the globe in the area of Astronomy as we now know will never be overlooked. Each one of these men created awesome findings about the galaxy that is the galaxy and excluding Copernicus; the conclusions which modified everything were done with a telescope.
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