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The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Unlike traditional telescopes, aperture arrays have no moving parts ... Seven out of the top 10 discoveries from the Hubble Space Telescope were not part of the original science motivation. Like the ...

In the nineteenth century, the emergence of diffraction theory enabled telescope builders to understand in more detail the benefits of larger-aperture ... results of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.