By 2013, engineers should finish installing at least 60 more of the 39-foot-diameter, 100-ton dishes, to capture the narrow spectrum of radiation that can pass through interstellar dust clouds.
The scientists will observe, among other things, the gravitational collapse that initiates the birth of stars and the red-shifted radiation emitted 10 billion years ago from the far reaches of the universe.
via popsci
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