Antarctican Telescope is Open for Business

The South Pole Telescope, built with money from NSF, Kavli Foundation of Oxnard, Calif., and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of San Francisco, is open for business. Scientists say the first observations were completed on February 16.

Antarctica, with its cold dry air, makes it a great place to look for dark energy, the mysterious stuff that is all the rage with cosmologist. (Except Louise Riofrio ).