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Title: Simply Awesome ...
Post by: Fedman NCC-3758 on October 05, 2011, 05:32:08 pm

This is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high in the Chilean Andes.

It shows two galaxies colliding in a view no other telescope on Earth or in space could capture.

The shot is a teasing glimpse of the capabilities of the Atacama Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope - this picture has been taken using only a quarter of the antennae it will have when it comes into full operation in 2013.

But even now, this shot of the Antennae Galaxies is astonishing - showing off the telescope's exceptional power at detecting 'cold' matter using radio waves. The combined image shown would not be visible at all to visible-light and infrared telescopes.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2044840/Worlds-complex-telescope-takes-pictures-deepest-space-quest-knowledge-outer-universe.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2044840/Worlds-complex-telescope-takes-pictures-deepest-space-quest-knowledge-outer-universe.html)

Title: Re: Simply Awesom ...
Post by: FA Frey XC on October 05, 2011, 07:51:41 pm

That is AWESOME !!!!!

Regards,

Title: Re: Simply Awesom ...
Post by: KBF-Kurok on October 05, 2011, 10:57:25 pm

WOW!!!

Title: Re: Simply Awesom ...
Post by: Fedman NCC-3758 on October 06, 2011, 05:01:50 pm

It's mind boggling to see stars  being thrown around like pebbles.

Title: Re: Simply Awesome ...
Post by: Kreeargh on October 07, 2011, 02:01:52 am

The cost if thats total 66 for 1.3 billion thats a :thumbsup: If what is done now that cost  :thumbsdown:  I cant wait to see what the 2013 immages show.