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Giant Camera Heads to Hawaii

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Feb. 22, 2008 -- The UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh yesterday shipped its biggest and most complex instrument ever -- a four-ton camera the size of a car that is expected to make major discoveries about the origins of the universe. The giant camera known as Scuba-2 is being transported to the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) atop a 14,000-ft mountain in Hawaii where astronomers expect it to reveal new information about the origins of galaxies, stars and planets. The camera will arrive at the telescope on the dormant volcano Mauna Kea in mid-March and begin...Read full article

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    Published: February 2008
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