A new camera installed in the Atacama Desert Telescope will enable Chilean scientists to study the most distant parts of the galaxy. The new camera, which is the size of a telephone booth kitted out with a 4-meter mirror, was designed specifically to study the so-called “dark energy”. It took a team of scientists from Chile, the US and Europe eight years to create it. The mirror has already made it possible to photograph the galaxy light of eight billion years. Chilean scientists expect to obtain new data on the early stages of the development of the Universe and the nature of “dark energy” which accounts for the continuous expansion of the Universe. Source: Voice of Russia
