Well Brethren,
It has been a while since I've had a chance to post to AAA and I must admit, it's only back by popular demand :-)
LAMOST Mirror
Today I present to you LAMOST, the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, of Xinglong Observing Station, which is North-East of Beijing in the People's Republic of China.
LAMOST was constructed with the intent of discovering just how the Universe was formed and how it has evolved since then. Because of its advanced adaptive optics and computerized control, enhancement and data collection, the scientists working on this project hope to peer back in time, to the very beginning of the Universe, at the very faintest of objects in order to answer these questions of our beginnings.
From the LAMOST introduction:
The scientific goal of LAMOST focuses on the extragalactic observation, structure and evolution of the Galaxy, and multi-wave identification. The spectroscopic survey carried out by LAMOST of tens of millions of galaxies and others will make substantial contribution to the study of extra-galactic astrophysics and cosmology, such as galaxies, quasars and the large-scale structure of the universe. Its spectroscopic survey of large number of stars will make substantial contribution to the study of stellar astrophysics and the Galaxy. Its spectroscopic survey combining with the surveys in other wavebands, such as radio, infrared, X-ray and ?-ray will make important contribution to the cross-identification of multi-waveband of celestial objects.
Sky and Telescope has an article on LAMOST and you can learn more about Chinese Astronomy programs in general at The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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