AMEC’s telescope looks back in time
AMEC is nearing completion of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope , which will look back in time to study how the universe has evolved since the ‘Big Bang’.

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is nearing completion of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), which will look back in time to study how the universe has evolved since the ‘Big Bang’.
Testing of the telescope will take place throughout May in
Designed to scan a patch of sky millions of times, ACT will detect faint microwaves and then provide a series of images that will be used to show how the structure of the universe has evolved. As more distant microwaves are detected, researchers are able to, in effect, look back in time.
Dr. Mark Devlin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the
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