I was tooling across the web on Friday at my usual web stops when I ran across this behemoth telescope on APOD. It’s the High Energy Stereo System (HESS) used not for looking into space, but to analyze the light emitted by cosmic rays striking the Earth’s atmosphere.
When I first saw the picture of this 32×24 meter cherenkov telescope I immediately thought of the giant contraption in the film “Contact” where Jody Foster takes a trip to the Vega star system. Click on the image to enlarge.
And as S.R. Hadden said “Why have only one, when for twice the money, you can have TWO!”.
. . . and what about the extra 18 hours on the recorder?
Yes, that *is* interesting, isn’t it……