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Chile’s New Submillimeter Telescope Opens With Ambitions to Map the Early Universe Faster Than Ever
The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope has been inaugurated on Cerro Chajnantor in Chile, combining an extreme high-altitude site with a wide-field design built for rapid surveys of the millimeter and submillimeter sky.
Key Takeaways
- The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope was inaugurated on April 9 atop Cerro Chajnantor in Chile.
- Its Prime Cam instrument will use more than 100,000 superconducting detectors.
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