WASHINGTON: The TMT or the Thirty Meter Telescope has been garnering worldwide attention after being surrounded with controversies. For one, it is being constructed atop Mount Kea, a land considered sacred by Native Hawaiians. In addition, the TMT is not the only giant telescope build and to be built in Hawaii but why it is the only one receiving such attention?
TMT is a $1.4B project that aims to study galaxies as far as 13 billion light years. The location was chosen by scientists because of its clean and dry air and unobstructed view. The summit of Mauna Kea reaches 13,796 feet above sea level.
The TMT would be Hawaii’s 14th largest telescope. Telescopes normally measures eight meters in diameters. The difference is the lens of TMT which is believed to be 200 times more sensitive and up to 200 times faster, or able to detect objects 200 times fainter.
“It will be able to travel all the way through space and time back to the very first objects that formed in the universe and to the beginning of time,” says Michael Bolte, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and Associate Director for the TMT. “Trying to understand this vast universe, where it came from, where it’s going, that’s exciting not just for science but, I think, for everyone.”
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