Saturday, February 22, 2014

ESA will launch the most powerful telescope in 2024 - Voice of Russia

reported that the ESA (European Space Agency) will launch a project in the world’s most powerful telescope called PLATO already in 2024. The new apparatus is designed to search for exoplanets of any size.

Many astronomers stresses that the new space observatory will use 34 smaller telescopes to discover planets revolving around stars that are located directly outside the solar system. Total for this project was allocated $ 821 million.

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