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These dishes use a technology called a phased array feed which allows the telescope to view different parts of the sky simultaneously. Each dish contains one of these phased array feeds, which ...

The eclipse will be visible to the naked eye, but binoculars or telescopes can enhance the ... also be visible over South America and western parts of Europe and Africa. While you don't need ...