i think these telescopes are so cute... and they kinda look like little marvin the martians or potato bugs!
this set of 6 telescopes on cerro tololo in chile make up PROMPT (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes), a program designed and built by the university of north carolina in chapel hill... the little marvins robotically slew to image gamma ray burst afterglows simultaneously with 6 different filters!
when theyre not tracking massive stellar explosions (or whatever else gamma ray bursts might be!), they are used remotely by students.
amanda, how exactly did you get to be so cool?
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