A
giant new telescope called the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping
Experiment (CHIME) has recently been unveiled in British Columbia,
Canada. The $16 million telescope was funded between various Canadian
universities and the National Research Council of Canada.
The
telescope will be used to detect fast radio bursts, monitor pulsars,
measure the expansion of the universe and help detect gravitational
waves. Many of these events are poorly understood by astronomers.
Fast
radio burst, for example, were first discovered in 2007. These bursts
of radio emissions often lasting only milliseconds are believed to be
caused by black holes or neutron stars in distant galaxies. In the last
decade, only 30 have been discovered - but this could change very soon
thanks to CHIME.
Unlike conventional telescopes, CHIME does not
have any moving parts either. "The whole novelty of CHIME is that it
sees a large portion of sky at
the same time and it can also observe 24/7, where for a lot of
telescopes you have to apply for observing time, and you only get a
couple of hours a year, maybe," Ziggy Pleunis told CBC News while
speaking about a recent study on pulsars.
Read more about this fascinating story at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/chime-telescope-unveiled-1.4278807
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