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Engineers are building a $1 billion telescope that will produce space images 10X sharper than Hubble

Jacqui Frank,Jessica OrwigNov 17, 2015, 23:46 IST

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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will weight 2.4 million-pounds and may to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. It uses seven giant mirrors to collect and focus the light to a point and eventually feeds into a series of sensitive instruments for complex analysis.

Construction of the telescope began earlier this month.

Produced by Jacqui Frank. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig.
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