Astronomers Inaugurate U.S.-Brazilian Telescope
From Times Wire Reports
Astronomers opened a new window to the cosmos by inaugurating a powerful U.S.-Brazilian telescope under northern Chile’s famously clear skies.
The $30-million Southern Astrophysical Research, or SOAR, telescope sits at 8,800 feet on Cerro Pachon mountain, 300 miles north of Santiago, the capital.
Builders broke ground on the telescope project six years ago. It was financed by the U.S. government’s Optical Astronomy Observatory, the government of Brazil and the universities of Michigan and North Carolina.
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