Maltese lecturer involved in project studying birth of stars
Kristian Zarb Adami, a senior lecturer at University and a visiting lecturer at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was recently named project scientist for a new collaboration between the University’s Department of...
Kristian Zarb Adami, a senior lecturer at University and a visiting lecturer at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was recently named project scientist for a new collaboration between the University’s Department of Physics, the Kavli Institute of Space Research at MIT and Oxford University’s Department of Astrophysics.
Through this collaboration, the University is now involved in building an ‘omniscope’ which, when completed, will be able to trace the birth of the very first hydrogen atoms and discover how they evolved into the first stars and the galactic structures observable today.
The omniscope is a new type of telescope which can observe the entire sky simultaneously at a variety of epochs. Indeed, the purpose of the omniscope is to look at when the earliest stars were formed.
The omniscope project will be based either in Inner Mongolia or in the Australian outback as a precursor to the largest telescope ever conceived, the ‘Square Kilometre Array’.