US and Mexican telescope to offer glimpse at Big Bang

In the biggest joint Mexico-U.S. scientific venture ever, builders are finishing a monster telescope on top of a volcano that will let astronomers look back 13 billion years and uncover secrets about the creation of the universe.

This telescope will be the largest of its kind in the world. It has a 165-foot antenna and a total cost of nearly $120 million.

The telescope will pick up millimeter-long radio waves that have been traveling through space for nearly 13 billion years.

"We will get incredible new insight into how galaxies were first formed," said project scientist David Hughes of Mexico's National Astrophysics Optics and Electronics Institute. "Once we start operating, we should be making breakthrough discoveries on an almost daily basis."

Could this be the next "Hubble telescope" in scientific adventure? It should be ready by the end of the year, I guess we will find out soon. It does have some very exciting possibilities in studying something that we really don't know all that much about. I'll keep you updated