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News Technology Worlds largest submillimeter camera set to probe outer space
| Worlds largest submillimeter camera set to probe outer space |
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| Tuesday, 06 December 2011 21:37 | |||
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Although it might sound like an oxymoron, the newly unveiled SCUBA-2 camera housed at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is the world’s largest submillimeter camera.
Submillimeter refers not to the physical size of the new camera itself, but to the submillimeter waveband between the far-infrared and microwave wavebands that the telescope observes. Being far more sensitive and powerful than its predecessor, SCUBA-2 will be able to map areas of the sky faster than ever before and provide information about the early life of stars, planets and galaxies...
Continue Reading World's largest submillimeter camera set to probe outer spaceSection: Digital CamerasTags: Astronomy,
Infrared,
NIST,
Space,
Telescope,
Universe
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