Australia to Build Super Telescope
2021-06-07
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1Australian scientists are leading an international project to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope.
2The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.
3The telescope's short name is MAVIS.
4That stands for Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph.
5It is designed to correct a problem common to Earth based telescopes: image blurring caused by atmospheric conditions.
6Scientists in Australia say the new technology will help them explore how the first stars formed 13 billion years ago.
7The telescope will also examine changes in the weather on planets and moons in our solar system.
8Images produced by MAVIS are expected to be three times clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope.
9Launched in 1990, Hubble orbits Earth from about 550 kilometers away, well outside the planet's atmosphere.
10Richard McDermid of Macquarie University in Sydney says the new telescope will change the way we explore space.
11He said the telescope will permit scientists "to push into a new frontier of the furthest and faintest things we can see."
12The new view will include the universe's earliest galaxies.
13This also means an exploration of the past, McDermid explained, "because when we look far away in astronomy we are also looking far back in time because it takes time for the light to reach us."
14The telescope will be placed in Chile and run by the European Southern Observatory, a research organization based in Germany.
15It is expected to take seven years to build and cost $44 million.
16The MAVIS team is led by The Australian National University.
17The team also includes scientists from Macquarie University, Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics and France's Laboratoire d'Astrophysique.
18I'm Jonathan Evans.
1Australian scientists are leading an international project to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope. The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope. 2The telescope's short name is MAVIS. That stands for Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph. 3It is designed to correct a problem common to Earth based telescopes: image blurring caused by atmospheric conditions. 4Scientists in Australia say the new technology will help them explore how the first stars formed 13 billion years ago. The telescope will also examine changes in the weather on planets and moons in our solar system. 5Images produced by MAVIS are expected to be three times clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched in 1990, Hubble orbits Earth from about 550 kilometers away, well outside the planet's atmosphere. 6Richard McDermid of Macquarie University in Sydney says the new telescope will change the way we explore space. 7He said the telescope will permit scientists "to push into a new frontier of the furthest and faintest things we can see." 8The new view will include the universe's earliest galaxies. This also means an exploration of the past, McDermid explained, "because when we look far away in astronomy we are also looking far back in time because it takes time for the light to reach us." 9The telescope will be placed in Chile and run by the European Southern Observatory, a research organization based in Germany. It is expected to take seven years to build and cost $44 million. 10The MAVIS team is led by The Australian National University. The team also includes scientists from Macquarie University, Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics and France's Laboratoire d'Astrophysique. 11I'm Jonathan Evans. 12Phil Mercer reported on this story for VOA News. Jonathan Evans adapted this story for Learning English. Caty Weaver was the editor. 13______________________________________________________________ 14Words in This Story 15blur - v. to make (something) unclear or difficult to see or remember 16frontier - n. the limits of knowledge in a particular field 17faint - adj. very difficult to see