Check out the first images of the Discovery Channel telescope

According to Discovery News, the first images of the space recorded by the Discovery Channel Telescope, the result of a project in partnership with Arizona-based Lowell Observatory, have just been released.

Launched in 2003, the $ 53 million project gave rise to the fifth largest telescope in the United States - dubbed the DCT - which has a three-ton mirror measuring 4.3 meters in diameter.

The Discovery Channel Telescope only went into operation in May, capturing images of the spiral galaxy M109 - 84 million light-years from Earth in the Ursa Major constellation - as well as the M104 Shady Galaxy and Swirl M51. Check out the images in the gallery below:

Source: Discovery News