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A New Eye Opens at the Top of the World.


Thirty four years ago, a group of Cornell scientists looked at a remote Chilean mountaintop and imagined what might be built there one day. That day has arrived. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope has just opened its eyes on the universe from one of the most extreme observatory sites ever chosen, and the science it promises to deliver from the first moments after the Big Bang to the hidden nurseries of newborn stars.

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