The UK ATC sent out the largest and most complicated instrument ever on Feb. 21. It's a camera called SCUBA-2 and it's going to the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope which is on top of a 14,000 ft. mountain in Hawaii. Scientists are hoping it will make great discoveries about the origins of space. This camera can detect what's called "submillimetre radiation" and is linked to the earliest phases of galaxy, star, and planet formation. Not a lot is known about this phase or the barely detectable submillimetre radiation. Check it out:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080221095420.htm
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