Largest Telescope of its Kind Built in Chile
Chile, with its clear skies and high altitude, was the site of a proposed radio astronomy will be the largest of its kind in the world.In the northern part of the country has a large telescope powerful new probing the universe started from a great height - and astronomers hope it will be the dawn of the universe.
ALMA telescope uses radio technology to see wavelengths of light that is much longer than what is visible to the human eye, and much colder than what appears in the infrared telescopes. This allows astronomers to see some of the most dark and cold of space - the areas where the galaxies are created, are formed stars and planets form around these stars.
"Millimeter and submillimeter waves, we can look to the formation of stars and planet, to investigate astrochemistry, and has finally seen the light received from the universe of the first galaxies," Alison Peck, deputy project scientist, Alma Observatory, said the Monday.
The International Observatory - ALMA stands for Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array - connects a number of radio antennas to operate like a single giant telescope.
So far, only 16 provided the first of 66 huge antennas have been established in line 16 400 feet (5000 meters) above sea level in the desert of northern Chile, where the air is so thin that the Earth's atmosphere causes less interference.
Even so, the Centre has already begun to see something different from the images in visible light and infrared telescopes.
Information from each antenna are then combined into a single wide screen of one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, ALMA correlator, which can carry 17 billion operations per second. More than 900 teams of astronomers around the world have participated to be among the first to use the table, said Lewis Ball, Deputy Director of Alma.
"The project has been coming now for something like 28 years," Ball said. "It is very likely that even in this early period of science ALMA observing, we will learn about the universe as we know it today ' hui. "
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| Largest Telescope of its Kind Built |
ALMA telescope uses radio technology to see wavelengths of light that is much longer than what is visible to the human eye, and much colder than what appears in the infrared telescopes. This allows astronomers to see some of the most dark and cold of space - the areas where the galaxies are created, are formed stars and planets form around these stars.
"Millimeter and submillimeter waves, we can look to the formation of stars and planet, to investigate astrochemistry, and has finally seen the light received from the universe of the first galaxies," Alison Peck, deputy project scientist, Alma Observatory, said the Monday.
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| Largest Telescope of its Kind Built in Chile |
So far, only 16 provided the first of 66 huge antennas have been established in line 16 400 feet (5000 meters) above sea level in the desert of northern Chile, where the air is so thin that the Earth's atmosphere causes less interference.
Even so, the Centre has already begun to see something different from the images in visible light and infrared telescopes.
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| Largest Telescope of its Kind Built in Chile |
"The project has been coming now for something like 28 years," Ball said. "It is very likely that even in this early period of science ALMA observing, we will learn about the universe as we know it today ' hui. "
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