The most powerful infrared camera looking at the sky

2005/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronomia

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The UK starts working on the Hawaiian infrared telescope a new camera. Named Grand Field Visual Camera, it is the most powerful infrared camera in the world: it can span a wide area of the sky at once, a surface as large as that of the moon, according to those who work with the camera.

The work of this camera will consist of exploring the sky and capturing objects close to our solar system and the most distant known.