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The Largest Telescope in the World: A Giant Leap for Space Exploration
The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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The Biggest Telescope on Earth Could Detect Life Around Other Stars in a Matter of Hours
The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...
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Dark skies above world's best astronomy sites could be ruined by new energy project
"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...
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World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe' (video)
The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...
Less than 1% of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
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This Ground Telescope Is So Big They Simply Call It The Extremely Large Telescope
Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...
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World’s Largest Telescope Stopped By LED
Earlier this year a simple indicator LED brought the Keck 1 telescope, a 370 tons mass, to a halting stop. How exactly did an LED do this? Simple: it did nothing. As it so happens, [Andrew Cooper ...
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Getting ready for the world’s biggest ever telescope
Plans for the world’s biggest telescope – the Square Kilometre Array - have advanced significantly with a decision to locate the project office at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank ...
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What you need to know about world's largest telescope
An curved arrow pointing right. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the ...
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World’s largest telescope at a cost of a billion Euros will be built in Chilean Andes
The Chilean Andes will be the location for the world’s largest telescope: the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), costing more than €1bn, which will capture the universe's earliest ...
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Scientists find unusual gas on exoplanets, could be the biggest clue in alien hunt
Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...