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Telescope Will Have Images 10X Sharper Than Hubble

Posted by timothy on from the projections-of-grandeur dept.

jangobongo writes "After a 20 year struggle, the University of Arizona's $120 million Large Binocular Telescope was dedicated last week. This unique telescope will have twin 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) mirrors that sit on a single mount. Using methods similar to a medical CAT scan, a technique of "tomographic" image reconstruction will be used to produce pictures 10 times sharper (example) than the Hubble Space Telescope for a fraction of its $2 billion dollar cost."

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  1. ohhh by Ledora · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow are x10 cameras that much better? .... oh wait 10x.

  2. Re:Hubble Comparison? by Rares+Marian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    By that logic a hot as a firecracker exploding in your hand P4 at 4.0Ghz (er oops discontinued) is better than the same Ghz on an Athlon.

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  3. HST II+ for $10 million - Hey, that's easy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Dude, if you can build another Hubble for $10 million, you're a miracle worker.

    Just lay off everyone and outsource it.

  4. Re:FUCK YOU AMERICA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty.

    Talk like that in person to enough people outside your mom's basement, and you probably won't have to worry about that.

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  5. WormCams by krahd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know this is a pretty offtopic but I am now reading Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's "The Light of Other Days" where they introduce the concept of WormCams (*).

    The WormCams are worm holes stabilized with negative energy (!) which can be used (somehow) as video cameras... so they can have instant access to anywhere in the universe... (I won't tell more cos I've spoiled enough :))

    Anyway, I'm so immersed in the book that all this Hubble things now looks soooo outdated ;)...



    Actually the book is a remake, as stated here: Bob Shaw's small, perfectly formed story 'The Light of Other Days' has enjoyed a prolonged life. It appeared in Analog in 1966 to widespread acclaim, and Shaw cover scanlater wrote sequel stories and expanded the concept into a novel, Other Days, Other Eyes (1972).

    Based on the intriguing premise of 'slow glass', glass through which light takes years to travel, it remains one of the finest in 60s SF, and it is a small scandal that it is not now in print.

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    1. Re:WormCams by Jerf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The Light of Other Days.

  6. Another reason to vote against W.: by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Responding to your sig, another reason to vote against W.: Government data compares Democrat and Republican economics.

    (Slashdot should not allow sigs if it is not okay to comment on them.)