GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The University of Michigan has been announced as one of two American institutions helping with the design and construction of a new tool for the world’s largest optical telescope.
The European Southern Observatory announced the plans for the new tool last week. The Multi-Object Spectrograph, also known as MOSAIC, will be able to measure light from more than 200 sources at the same time.
It will be one of several tools for the new telescope in design for the ESO. The “Extremely Large Telescope,” often called the ELT, should be complete by the end of the decade. When it is operational, it is expected to be the strongest telescope on Earth, overtaking NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…