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Date Time Annual conference on new telescope moves science ahead More than a hundred people gathered virtually at the end of April for the 2021 annual conference on the CCAT-prime project, which is building the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile. Despite pandemic challenges, telescope planning, development and construction continues, with “first light” now scheduled for 2023. Mod-Cam receiver for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope. CCAT Observatory, Inc. FYST, a powerful, 6-meter-diameter telescope currently being assembled in Germany by Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH, wi...

January 12, 2021 New work agrees with older research suggesting the oldest light in the universe – from the most distant galaxy yet known – started its journey toward us 13.77 billion years ago. View larger. | In 2013, the Planck space telescope released the most detailed map to date of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang. It was the mission’s first all-sky picture of the oldest light in our universe, imprinted on the sky when it was just 380,000 years old. Now a new, independent study agrees with Planck’s results. That’s good news for astronomers...

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations New View of Nature’s Oldest Light Suggest Universe Is 13.77 Billion Years Old From an observatory high above Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe. Their observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old – give or take 40 million years. A Cornell researcher co-authored one of two papers about the findings, which add a fresh twist to an ongoing debate in the astrophysics community. The new estimate, using data gathered at the National Science Founda...