Titanic Thirty-Meter Telescope 12 x's Hubble To Probe Dark Matter & First Stars

We're building a billion dollar telescope and it isn't just aimed at the stars: it's looking for the first ones. The new Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) proves that sometimes bigger really is better and will be elements in the optics allows them all to act as one (which is good because it's impossible to build a real one that big.)  The realtime control also allows astronomers to correct for the effects of the atmosphere - so even though it's on the ground, the TMT will have twelve times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The key really is collecting more light.  No matter what CSI may have told you, there's no way to magically make more information appear in a blurry picture - that's why the picture is blurry.  Astronomers have engineered an awesome array of tools to extract every scrap of data from images, but you just can't beat starting with a better picture.  The TMT will be able to see further and clearer than anything to date, examining the intriguingly blurred shapes hovering the very edge of current technology.

As well as seeing the very first stars (the further away you look, the longer ago it happened due  to the limited speed of light), the titanic telescope will provide far finer data on the structure of the universe - allowing theorists to narrow down their dark matter theories.  It's an awesome example of what humanity can do, and lets hope any aliens notice this instead of the reality TV - how an international collaboration got together to look outside ourselves like never before.

Luke McKinney

Titanic Thirty Meter Telescope 

Comments

[Caleb]

nice. I'm looking forward to seeing the images

[claudio]

The giant of ground telescopes : it will be a wonder.

I do not know however (as nobody does) its ability to look at dark matter.

Regards anyway to the new giant.

[o-dish-es]

Where will it sit?

[Narendra Nath]

It is truly worth the efforts to know about the early universe, the first billion years of its life. The science of those days bear all the signatures for the mysteries that we have currently.

[Dredd]

It can't see dark matter because that matter can only be seen by the mind's eye.

[o-dish-es]

Sitting in the future at Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

[Andrew T]

The Wired article states that it is due to be completed in...2018! Doh. Why does big science always take so long to construct?? I want my uber-hi-res images now!

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