Australian scientists are leading an international project to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope. The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.
June 3, 2021 Share
Australian scientists are leading an international consortium that is building one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes. It promises to see further and clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope and unlock mysteries of the early Universe.
The telescope is called MAVIS, or Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph.
It’s a long name for a highly complex instrument that will be the first of its kind.
It aims to remove blurring from conventional telescope images caused by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere, which is why the stars appear to twinkle in the night sky.
Scientists in Australia say the new technology will allow them to “peer back into the early Universe” and help them explore how the first stars formed 13 billion years ago, as well as monitoring changes in the weather on planets and moons in our solar system.
Australia s MAVIS Super Telescope Aims to Outdo NASA s Hubble
Voice of America
02 Jun 2021, 22:05 GMT+10
Australian scientists are leading an international consortium that is building one of the world s most powerful ground-based telescopes. It promises to see further and clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope and unlock mysteries of the early Universe.
The telescope is called MAVIS, or Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph.
It s a long name for a highly complex instrument that will be the first of its kind.
It aims to remove blurring from conventional telescope images caused by turbulence in Earth s atmosphere, which is why the stars appear to twinkle in the night sky.