World's most expensive telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universe -

World's most expensive telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universe - 

This is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high in the Chilean Andes. 

It shows two galaxies colliding in a view no other telescope on Earth or in space could capture.

The shot is a teasing glimpse of the capabilities of the Atacama Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope - this picture has been taken using only a quarter of the antennae it will have when it comes into full operation in 2013.

But even now, this shot of the Antennae Galaxies is astonishing - showing off the telescope's exceptional power at detecting 'cold' matter using radio waves. The combined image shown would not be visible at all to visible-light and infrared telescopes.

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