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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. Big enough to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    See what's in here.

  2. Troll. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everything you've said is so stupid I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're a troll.