Install the world's most powerful telescope

Thirty Meter telescope telescope can collect images of objects that are 13 billion light-years away, near the beginning of the universe.

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If you are a person who likes to look at amazing images from space, here is an interesting piece of information: Hawaii, United States Land and Resources Committee, has approved a telescope project. The largest and strongest in the world atop Mauna Kea, the inactive volcano 4,205 meters above sea level.

Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has a large glass of 492 segments in a diameter of about 33 meters, thus being able to capture images of objects 13 billion light-years away, close to the origin of Space.

TMT telescope design image.

TMT can also photograph the planets outside our solar system with details never before achieved.

This is an astronomical project of cooperation between scientists in the US, Canada, Japan, China and India, TMT telescope captures images with 144 times the light distance of Hubble Space glass and nearly 10 times a among Keck telescopes.

Despite protests from environmental activists in Hawaii, the TMT telescope installation project will start in about a year with a total value of more than $ 1 billion. It is expected that the glass will begin to serve research activities in 2021.

TMT operates in ultraviolet wavelengths to mid-range infrared radiation, which will combine with the glass of James Webb Space, Hubble's human transmission, to reach the beginning of the universe.

However, TMT may not be able to retain the title of the world's most powerful telescope for a long time, and will be surpassed by the Extremely Large European telescope, located in Chile. Expected glass Extremely Large was also put into operation in 2021.