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‘Time Machine’ Is Created To Study The Ancient Universe
After seven years of research scientists from the University of California (UCLA) have managed to construct an instrument called ‘time machine’ which allows them to look at the most distant and ancient parts of the Universe.
This is the MOSFIRE spectrometer, which was built in Los Angeles, USA, and then moved to the W.M. Keck Observatory, at the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. The construction of the instrument is a result of teamwork of experts from several U.S. universities and organizations. The MOSFIRE weighs 5 tons and its construction cost 14 million dollars.
The spectrometer will collect infrared wavelengths invisible to human eye, which will make it possible to penetrate cosmic dust and see distant objects in the Universe.
In reality, as scientists hope, the time machine will be able to show the most ancient galaxies that are 10 billion years of life, i.e. some of them that were created shortly after the beginning of time, the so-called Big Bang.
