Ensuring a Massive Antarctic Telescope "Keeps Its Cool"
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Ensuring a Massive Antarctic Telescope "Keeps Its Cool"

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Posted February 5, 2019

Credit: Mel Rose / NSF

Scientists install a cryostat (purple instrument), a device for maintaining very low temperatures, on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) earlier this Southern Hemisphere summer.

More information about SPT optics--in “plain English”, with diagrams--is available here: https://pole.uchicago.edu/public/telescope_optics.html

 
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