A worldwide consortium of scientists have created the SCUBA-2, a new submillimeter astronomy camera that can detect cold radiation from the ancient galaxies of the universe. A worldwide consortium of ...

A giant camera known as SCUBA-2 is being transported to the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Rather than detecting visible light, SCUBA-2 will detect submillimeter radiation, which is sensitive to the ...

Astronomers have commenced a revolutionary new study of cosmic star-formation history, looking back in time to when the universe was still in its lively and somewhat unruly youth. The consortium is ...

Although it might sound like an oxymoron, the newly unveiled SCUBA-2 camera housed at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is the world's largest submillimeter camera.

Quentin Cooper talks to scientists from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh about SCUBA-2, a new instrument designed to scan the skies for evidence of how galaxies and planets form. The formation of ...