Astronomy: What four giant mirrors on the island of La Palma are searching for
A false alarm during the search for banned nuclear tests led scientists to a signal from space. On La Palma, four giant mirrors are now capturing a faint blue glow. What does it reveal?
The LST Subarray, a new astronomical observatory, has been officially inaugurated on the Spanish island of La Palma. The facility features four large telescopes, each 23 meters in diameter, made up of 198 hexagonal mirror facets, designed to detect high-energy gamma radiation from distant galaxies. The observatory is part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) project, which aims to have 64 telescopes in operation by 2030.
The telescopes will study extreme environments in the universe, including supermassive black holes and dark matter.
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