Ep. 530: Astronomy of the Andes - Then and Now Pt. 2

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🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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530: Astronomy of the Andes - Then and Now Pt. 2 Astronomy Cast 530: Astronomy of the Andes - Then and Now Pt. 2 by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay South America, especially the Atacama Desert in Chile has become one of the best places in the world to put a telescope. It's dry, high, and the nights are clear. Today we'll talk about the monster telescopes already in operation in this region, and the big ones coming soon.

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director
0:28.5	of Cosmic Quest.
0:58.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
1:28.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
1:58.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
2:28.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
2:58.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
3:28.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
3:58.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
4:28.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
4:58.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
5:28.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
5:38.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
5:46.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
6:16.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
6:46.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
6:56.5	Dr. Pamela Gaea, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
7:04.5	It's not done in blues, it's not done in ultraviolets. We don't have the precision to do this with that short of a wavelength.
7:14.5	And this is just some of the world's most amazing instrumentation and even as we start to get into this era of the overwhelmingly large and massively large and come up with whatever.
7:30.5	It's extremely large. Yeah, as you come up with these, I really give it to the VLT for finding its own way to get there and get better resolution than those scopes are going to get in some cases.
7:45.5	Right, but the next generation, the extremely large telescope is coming. It's going to be built 2035, I'm sorry, 2025 I think. So we're still low.
7:59.5	Between, yeah, we're about six years away and it's a 39 meter telescope. So that that's going to be there too. So it's going to be in the same spot.
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