Atacama Cosmology Telescope

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope was a cosmological millimeter-wave telescope located on in the in the north of . ACT made high-sensitivity, arcminute resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation, the relic radiation left by the Big Bang process.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: telescope in Chile
  • Also known as: “ACTpol” and “Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor and Simons Array.

Building
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The is an array of microwave telescopes which has been observing since 2016 from a high-altitude site in the of as part of the Parque Astronómico de Atacama. is situated 140 metres southeast of Atacama Cosmology Telescope.

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The Simons Observatory is located in the high in Northern inside the Chajnator Science Preserve, at an altitude of 5,200 meters. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the were located nearby but these instruments have now been replaced by the current telescopes of the Simons Observatory. is situated 220 metres south of Atacama Cosmology Telescope.

Volcano
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is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the in Chile's II Region, approximately 6 km south of the border between and Chile and 12 km SE of the and volcanoes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

Hamlet
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the of northern , which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. is situated 8 km southeast of Atacama Cosmology Telescope.

Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Latitude
-22.95857° or 22° 57′ 31″ south
Longitude
-67.78777° or 67° 47′ 16″ west
Open location code
579J26R6+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
Q753067
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Atacama Cosmology Telescope” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تلسكوب أتاكاما الكوني”
  • Arabic: “مقراب أتكاما الكوني”
  • Catalan: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Catalan: “Telescopi Cosmològic d’Atacama”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡馬宇宙學望遠鏡”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡馬宇宙望遠鏡計畫”
  • Dutch: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Finnish: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • French: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • French: “Telescope cosmologique d’Atacama”
  • French: “Télescope cosmologique d’Atacama”
  • French: “Télescope Cosmologique d’Atacama”
  • German: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Italian: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Italian: “Telescopio cosmologico di Atacama”
  • Japanese: “アタカマ宇宙論望遠鏡”
  • Latin: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Latin: “Telescopium Cosmologicum Atacamense”
  • Latin: “Telescopium Cosmologicum Atacamensis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Persian: “تلسکوپ کیهان‌شناسی آتاکاما”
  • Polish: “Teleskop kosmologiczny Atacama”
  • Polish: “Teleskop Kosmologiczny Atakamy”
  • Spanish: “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
  • Spanish: “ATC”
  • Spanish: “Telescopio Cosmologico de Atacama”
  • Spanish: “Telescopio Cosmológico de Atacama”
  • Tatar: “татарча”
  • Turkish: “ACTpol”
  • Turkish: “Atacama Kozmoloji Teleskobu”
  • Ukrainian: “Атакамський космологічний телескоп”
  • “ACT”
  • “Atacama Cosmology Telescope”

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