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Engineering the 30-Meter Telescope

Posted by kdawson on from the yet-another-football-field dept.

yyzmcleod writes "When completed in 2018, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be the world's largest and most powerful, with a resolving power 100 times that of Hubble. As TMT's preliminary design review nears, this article details how its enclosure, segmented mirror and adaptive optics will work to let astronomers peer back to the beginning of the Cosmos."

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  1. 42 meters? by sznupi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Something gives me the feeling E-ELT will give us the ultimate answer about our universe.

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