A wide eye on the stars; 30 meter telescope

A WIDE EYE ON THE STARS
U.S. News and World Report (Science)

"A 30-meter telescope will knock your socks off."
-- Project scientist Jerry Nelson, a University of California astronomer

In 1610 Galileo used a lens an inch wide to see mountains on the moon. In the 1840s Irish astronomer William Parsons erected the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a 56-foot-long tube with a 72-inch mirror. Now, eyes are set to open even wider as a project called TMT or Thirty-Meter Telescope picks up speed.

Ask an astronomer to make a wish and it will be for a bigger telescope:
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