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Astronomy Images
Eagle Nebula
Comet Hale-Bopp
Horsehead Nebula
Globular Star Cluster, Messier 5
Messier 16
Milky Way Vista
Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
Trifid Nebula
Virgo Cluster of Galaxies
Telescopes and Observatories
Gemini Hawaii - 1
Gemini Hawaii - 2
DAO Telescopes
DRAO Telescopes
CFHT Telescope
JCMT Telescope
Gemini South
Telescopes and Observatories
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
The JCMT 15-m radio telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii is a partnership between the UK, Canada and the Netherlands. Since its opening in 1987, it has probed the interstellar medium, star forming regions, and the earliest phases of galaxy evolution.
The JCMT collects very high frequency radio waves with its 15-m diametre antenna. With it, astronomers study the Sun, comets, planets, molecular clouds, galaxies, and the cosmic background radiation. JCMT astronomers detected complex molecules in Comet Hale-Bopp (1997) that had never before been seen in a comet.
