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The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope is the largest facility in the world dedicated to submillimetre astronomy, it covers wavelengths between 0.3 and 2 mm. As viewed in the image to the left the telescope is situated on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii, at an altitude of 4092m above sea level. This is one of the best astronomical observing sites in the world, partly because the atmosphere above Hawaii is particularly stable and unpolluted. This telescope has a primary mirror with a diameter of 15 meters.[1]

The purpose of this extraordinary telescope is to study things invisible to conventional telescopes. These objects include stars in their earliest stages, when they are surrounded by gases and dust disks that have not yet combined to form planets.[2]
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[1] Professor Davis, G.R. University of Saskatchewan
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. (Updated: July 20, 1998.) Dec. 13, 2005. http://physics.usask.ca/~davis/jcmt.html
[2] Hawai'i Island Science Portal. The Kohala Center. Dec. 13, 2005. http://www.kohalacenter.org/hisp/as_jcmt.shtml
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