New Mexico telescope to advance astronomy

SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) – The first of ten large optical telescopes, designed to radically advance astronomy, has arrived at a remote mountaintop in New Mexico.
Delicately hauled up miles of rough, rocky mountain roads, it will be the first installed in New Mexico Tech’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer.
The views from all ten optical telescopes will ultimately be combined with sophisticated electronics and hardware to create a single view equal in resolution to that of a