Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope

coondoggie writes “Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences that week donated $30 million to an ambitious telescope that researchers say will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights — something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project got $20

million from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and $10 million from Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates. Expected to see its “first light” in 2014, the 8.4-meter LSST

will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3 billion-pixel digital camera, probing the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and opening a movie-like window on objects […]

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