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World’s highest observatory in Chile complete after 26 years
For more than a quarter-century, workers have been toiling atop a mountaintop in Chile in a quest to help researchers explore the universe in the search for the origins of life.
Julio Bravo Yubini, a senior official with the Chilean foreign ministry, said in his address that he hopes that the TAO telescope, one of the world’s finest infrared instruments, will achieve breakthroughs in the exploration of the universe. Scientists at the university preferred Mount Chajnantor to other candidate sites in the Southern Hemisphere because the atmosphere around the mountaintop is thin and the mountain's location in the arid conditions. “We chose a dry region with lesser water vapor, based on data gathered by weather satellites and other sources,” said Yuzuru Yoshii, professor emeritus of cosmic physics at the University of Tokyo, who led the TAO project over the past 26 years.
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