Incredible Stellar Observatory
July 17th, 2007
Sure, it’s not quite as awesome as a Japanese Neutrino Observatory, but this star-gazing outpost is still pretty amazing. The BBC reports:
Tests have begun on one of the world’s largest optical telescopes, installed on a mountain in the Canary Islands.
Situated on a 2,400m-high (7,900ft) peak on the island of La Palma, the huge telescope consists of a mirror measuring 10.4m (34.1ft) in diameter.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. a | July 19th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Hey, call me a detail obsessive, but there seems to be, like, something missing in that picture…
2. Frank the SciencePunk | July 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Yeah, no-one seems to have bothered taking decent pictures of the actual mirror and telescope. I almost added a dotted outline of what I imagined it would look like. More pics available here.
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