Thursday, March 02, 2006
Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050
"Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change", report the BBC. Gerry Gilmore, University of Cambridge, says, "You either give up your cheap trips to Majorca, or you give up astronomy. You can't do both."
He might as well have said cheap trips to Tenerife. In fact, with one of the largest telescopes in the world located the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma next door and the Teide Observatory right here on Tenerife, it would probably have been more apt for him to do so.
And it is no loger pure marketing hype to suggest that you need to rush to see it while you still can, but at least you can do that from wherever you are in the world ...
Slooh, whose observatories are on Mount Teide in the Canary Islands, run over 50 missions nightly from the mountaintop telescopes and start as soon as it gets dark in the Canary Islands - which is right about now. Click here to discover how.
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