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Chile’s New Submillimeter Telescope Opens With Ambitions to Map the Early Universe Faster Than Ever
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.
- The telescope is designed to map the sky more than ten times faster than previous submillimeter observatories.
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DT Editorial Team··via universetoday.com