The South Pole Telescope, which began scientific observations in 2007, surveys the sky for cosmic microwave background radiation, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang.

南极望远镜2007年开始工作。 它的作用是观察宇宙微波背景辐射，这是宇宙大爆炸的“余辉”。

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LSST, unlike the South Pole Telescope, will be able to detect anything massive, not just stuff that once held hot gas.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

The South Pole Telescope could thus see 10 billion years into the past, and might turn up thousands of clusters more than enough to study the evolution of dark energy.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

Dr Carlstrom and his colleagues propose building an eight-metre-diameter radio telescope at the South Pole to search for such cold spots.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology