Australian scientists are leading an international project to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope.The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.The telescope's short name is MAVIS. That stands for Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph.It is designed to correct a problem common to Earth based telescopes: image blurring caused by atmospheric conditions.Scientists in Australia say the new technology will help them explore how the first stars formed 13 billion years ago.The telescope will also examine changes in the weather on planets and moons in our solar system.Images produced by MAVIS are expected to be three times clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope.Launched in 1990, Hubble orbits Earth from about 550 kilometers away, well outside the planet's atmosphere.Richard McDermid of Macquarie University in Sydney says the new telescope will change the way we explore space.
