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The world's largest alien hunting telescope was born
China officially completes the world's largest radio telescope, which specializes in hunting for signs of alien life in the distant universe after finishing the final re…
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Super telescopes detect hundreds of mysterious galaxies
A South African radio telescope has discovered hundreds of galaxies in a small corner of the universe that previously thought only 70 galaxies.
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China relocated more than 9,000 people to hunt people out of space
China is planning displacement of more than 9,000 people to increase sensitivity for the world's largest radio telescope, hoping to find alien life.
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NASA built WFIRST wide-angle telescopes, hunting life out of Earth
NASA is currently building a new space telescope to search for extraterrestrial life and to help scientists decipher long-standing mysteries about the universe.
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NASA is about to finish the machine looking past 13.5 billion years
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) completes the assembly of the main mirror of the James Webb space telescope, the time machine capable of looking back 13.5 billion years.
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Astronomy is as big as 30 football fields in China
On July 25, China began installing a 500-meter radio telescope, believed to be the world's largest in the mountains of Guizhou Province, China.
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Large telescope construction to study the origin of the universe
Japan is leading the way in building a large cosmic ray telescope to clarify the origin of the universe.
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Astronomical observatory in Chile
Paranal Observatory was built in the Atacama Desert region, north of Chile, as one of the bases for astronomy research purposes.
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Hale telescope - Legend of the telescope world
The Hale telescope at Paloma Observatory, in California (USA) is one of the world's largest telescopes.
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Chile started construction of the world's largest telescope
On June 19, the world's largest telescope construction project (E-ELT) in Chile was officially started after years of delay.
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NASA builds the world's most powerful telescope
NASA is working on building the latest advanced high-tech aperture space telescope.
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NuSTAR telescope helps decode supernova explosions
NASA's NuSTAR nuclear spectrophotometer is currently helping scientists decipher the mystery of how stars become supernova by mapping the remnants of the radiation mater…
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China builds the world's largest telescope
China is building the largest radio telescopes in the world, with a radius of 500m, much larger than the US telescope of the same name called Arecibo (305m radius).
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Gaia telescope has gone into operational orbit
On January 8, the Gaia telescope slipped into its operating trajectory before carrying out its mission of collecting data for establishing the most detailed map of the M…
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The world's largest telescope
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is one of the largest telescopes built by humans, allowing scientists to observe distant planets in a way