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Giant Telescopes Of The Future

Posted by timothy on from the letting-in-the-light dept.

mindpixel writes: "Mindjack just published my article about the the future of very large telescopes, such as the VLT and the OWL which I talked about in my /. interview. In addition, I talk about a future space-based telescope that would use the Sun's gravity to 'image large surface features,' of extrasolar planets, which telescpes like the VLT can just detect, 'such as oceans, continents or ice caps, or even the impact of civilization on such features.'"

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  1. Not to mention the Square Kilometer Array ... by LL · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ... which is being proposed for outback Australia. According to some of the designs, a log-spiral configuration could extend more than 2000 kilometres (!!) which pretty much spans the whole continent. About 40% of the lens will be concentrated in a single kilometre grid. The interesting feature is that they hope this will be a software telescope with insane amounts of DSPs to help correlate the different frequency radio signals and generate composite snapshots. Browse around that site for some interesting reads!

    LL