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New Wide-Angle Telescope to Capture Night Sky
NewScientist is reporting that a new telescope located in Chile is aiming to capture images of the entire night sky every three nights. From the article: "The telescope will use a digital camera with 3 billion pixels to image the entire sky across three nights, producing an expected 30 terabytes of data per night. This will allow astronomers to detect objects that quickly change their position, such as near-Earth asteroids, or their brightness, such as supernovae."
The ability to scan the entire sky in high resolution in one go WILL be a benefit to every other telescope on earth.
As soon as this thing detects anything strange, the other specific scopes can be aimed in that direction.
Without this, its blind luck whether an event will be witnessed.
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What's another $300mil? Ugh.
A little over a day in Iraq. As a taxpayer, I would rather fund the telescope.
What?