Bill Gates contributed money to build the observatory

According to AFP news agency, the founder of Microsoft Company, billionaire Bill Gates will contribute $ 10 million to help build the observatory named LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) worth $ 400 million in Chile. Another Microsoft member, Charles Simonyi, also said he would contribute $ 20 million to the project.

LSST is the world's most modern observatory project, located at Cerro Pachón, a mountain in northern Chile on an altitude of 2.682m above sea level. As expected, LSST will be put into operation in 2013.

Bill Gates (Photo: AFP)

This observatory with a diameter of 8.4m contains the world's most modern camera with a resolution of 3,200 megapixels, promising to help people reach out into space, discovering unmatched planets. know, learn about the mysterious energy resources of the universe and trace the trail of distant galaxies. Since then, scientists will be able to grasp the data about the expansion process of the universe as well as sketch the overall picture of the universe, in particular, the picture of our galaxy.

With the ability to capture a series of images every 15 seconds and cover the entire sky every 3 nights, LSST also helps scientists track meteorites near Earth with a diameter of about 100m to help standard people get better at the risk of being hit by meteors.

It is known that early last year (2007), the famous online search engine provider Google also announced a plan to collaborate with scientists to build the observatory. LSST and Google will share many common goals, namely that they both analyze huge data - up to more than 30 terabytes (30,000 gigabytes) a night - collected from this telescope.

Observatory LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) - (Photo: News.com)