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I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon's high desert, and the dark skies blew me away

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...
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The Biggest Telescope on Earth Could Detect Life Around Other Stars in a Matter of Hours

Nestled at an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet, atop a mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert called Cerro Armazones, scientists and engineers are constructing the largest visible light and infrared ...
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Ex Google CEO wants giant space telescope at 'ridiculously' low cost

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...
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Witness the World’s Biggest Telescope Rising Under a Sky Full of Stars

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to combat atmospheric interference. By shooting powerful lasers into the sky, ...
Southeast Missourian

Scientists: Worlds largest telescope to be built in Hawaii

HONOLULU Hawaii was chosen Tuesday as the site for the worlds biggest telescope, a device so powerful that it will allow scientists to see some 13 billion light-years away and get a glimpse into the ...
The Austin Chronicle

Massive Proposed Telescope From UT Enters Final Design Phase

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan Telescope is moving into its final design phase to get federal funding ...
Journalism in the Americas

Big Eye on Dark Skies: Hobby-Eberly Telescope

See a special exhibit at Texas Science & Natural History Museum, “Big Eye on Dark Skies: Hobby-Eberly Telescope” and learn how the HET helps scientists. Discover how astronomers study distant galaxies ...