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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
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Chile's Giant Telescope: Peering into the Universe's Origins
The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...
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Giant Radio Galaxy Could Hold 30 Milky Ways, Astronomers Say
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
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World's largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos)
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...
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Astronomers spot a giant radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...