Chile wins race to cohost gamma ray telescopes

About 100 dishes are now planned to go in the Atacama Desert — close to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal — to form the southern hemisphere part of the US$330 million Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).  The northern hemisphere component of around 20 dishes will go on La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic, the CTA board announced last week (16 July).

Source: SciDev.Net

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