Want to go on an extraordinary voyage? Today you can, by watching
Around the World in 80 Telescopes. The 24-hour long webcast is organized by the European Southern Observatory for the
International Year of Astronomy cornerstone project 100 Hours of Astronomy. As suggested in this astronomically intense composite, the webcast event follows night and day around the globe to visit some of the most advanced observatories on Earth and in space, exploring the universe in visible light and beyond. The
Gemini North Telescope (Hawaii, USA) and the large observatories at
the summit of volcanic
Mauna Kea are scheduled for the first stops in the program beginning April 3 at
09:00 UT. Others on the schedule include the
Swift Satellite and
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the
Himalayan Chandra Telescope (Hanle, India), and the
10-meter South Pole Telescope and
IceCube Neutrino Telescope (South Pole, Antarctica).
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/