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>> The University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics has led the world
in the exploration of the cosmos.
In 1893, George Ellery Hale, the father of American Astronomy founded the Department
of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Yerkes Observatory.
In the 1890s, Chicago built the world's largest telescope in Yerkes, Wisconsin,
and this instrument allowed the University to attract the very best astronomers,
and the University of Chicago, at its very beginning,
had the best astronomy department in the world.
With our involvement in the GMT, Giant Magellan Telescope Project,
we will ensure that Chicago astronomers and physicists have access
to the most modern telescopes as we explore the universe.
Telescopes are time machines that allow us to study the evolution of the universe,
to directly observe the evolution of the universe.
As we look out in space, we look back in time.
The farther out in space we look, the further back in time we can observe the universe.
Larger telescopes allow us to look farther out in space and further back in time
to probe the very earliest history of the universe.