Next-generation camera takes data of early universe

The South Pole Telescope recently opened its third-generation camera for a multiyear survey. Deep in Antarctica, at the southernmost point on our planet, sits a 33-foot telescope designed for a single purpose: to make images of the oldest light in the universe. This light, known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, has journeyed across the cosmos for 14 billion years--from the moments immediately after the Big Bang until now. Because it is brightest in the microwave part of the spectrum, ...