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Tokyo Atacama Observatory
May 25 , 2024
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- The world’s highest astronomical observatory at 5,640 metres (18,500 feet) above sea level is now open in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
- The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) is now built and fully operational, sitting on the summit of a mountain in the Atacama Desert.
- The TAO’s telescope is 6.5 metres in length and consists of two science instruments designed to observe the universe in infrared.
- One of the instruments, SWIMS, will image galaxies from the very early universe.
- The second, named MIMIZUKU, will aid the overarching science goal by studying primordial disks of dust.
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