Most advanced terrestrial telescope -- 10 times more powerful than Hubble

by Ben Reilly Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:42 pm

The awesomeness continues -- the Giant Magellan Telescope, going up in Chile, will provide 10 times the resolution of Hubble despite being earth-bound. It will be as tall as a 22-story building and will be able to collect light from just 100,000 years after the Big Bang. That means beginning in 2022, it will be able to peer about 13.7 billion years into the past of this wonderful place we call our universe.

Hank Green has more:

by captain Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:16 pm

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by Ben Reilly Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:35 am

I like to think so. What I like even more is that this guy's videos are watched by millions of people, mostly young. Man, I'd have killed for regular science videos when I was young, particularly ones considered socially acceptable to watch Smile

I think I was born about 20 years too early ...

by veya_victaous Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:07 am

Well Ben
You made we think, I'd like the thank Mr Thomas and Mr Simmons. 2 Awesome Science teachers I had in School who taugh kids "Science is Cool, don't beleive me then watch this blow up bom

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they may not have been responsible but they got us interested in Science

by Lurker Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:03 pm

I remember a co-worker I once had who was a religious fanatic. We were talking about the magazines Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. I said I read them on a regular basis. My co-worker said he read Popular Mechanics but would not read that Popular Science propaganda. Evidently science is a sin.