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South Pole Telescope
URL: http://pole.uchicago.edu/

Description:
Background and updates about "the largest telescope ever deployed at the South Pole." Find materials about the building of the telescope, which was completed in February 2007, and details about the South Pole site, telescope optics and design, and the questions of dark energy and galaxy clusters that the telescope will be used to explore. From a team of scientists and engineers, funded through the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. 

Publisher:
National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs; University of Chicago

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LII Database Information:
Record 24994 created by Jennifer English on 11/26/2007
Last modification on 11/29/2007
Published: 12/06/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24994