Sierra Negra Telescope
SIERRA NEGRA, Mexico — On this windswept peak where visitors gasp in the thin air, Mexico is building the world’s largest telescope of its kind, an instrument primed to be powerful enough for scientists to look back at the dawn of the universe.
The Large Millimeter Telescope, located on the summit of the dormant volcano Sierra Negra, is considered Mexico’s most ambitious scientific project ever. It is also currently the biggest scientific collaboration between the United States and any Latin American country.
Nine years after construction began, the telescope is now some nine months away from its first attempts at capturing images from faint millimeter waves, a type of radio wave. Scientists calculate these have been traveling through space since shortly after the Big Bang, some 13.4 billion years ago.
“Some people talk about telescopes like time machines,” said Peter Schloerb, a University of Massachusetts astronomy professor who is the U.S. director of the project. “You can see objects in the universe as they were billions of years ago, just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, when [the universe] was a big, hot ball of plasma.”
Read the rest of this great article at “Red Orbit“.
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