Nations vie for giant telescope
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Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope.
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_ Astronomers say a new camera atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 36-hundred times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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MT. SIERRA NEGRA, Mexico  - Perched on the top of  one of Mexico's highest mountains is a gigantic, half-built  telescope that scientists hope will reveal more secrets of the  universe's early years than any before it.
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Tests on one of the world's largest optical telescopes have begun on the Canary Island of La Palma.
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Mexico flicks the switch on a huge telescope which could uncover clues about the creation of the universe.
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A large telescope funded and led by the UK nears completion on a mountain-top in Chile's Atacama desert.
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A new partnership with an astronomy organization could spur additional innovation.
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HILO, Hawai&#39;i - A new camera at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 3,600 times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers said.
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A 20-year battle with environmentalists and others over placing a powerful optical telescope atop Mount Graham in Arizona is nearing an end. Astronomers may be using the Large Binocular Telescope by next year.
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A radio telescope that will seek out deep space radio signals to help scientists learn more about the creation of the universe is under development by a Netherlands-based space foundation and IBM.
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PHOENIX -- A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;s most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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Astronomers produce amazing pictures using a remarkable new instrument on the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii.
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The calm air above part of the Antarctic makes it the best place on Earth for astronomy, according to the scientists who propose building a telescope in the icy wilderness.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK have obtained the clearest pictures from space ever taken.
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.
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This human interest story describes a night in the life of scientists and engineers working 'round the clock to test NASA's next great space telescope.
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Australians try to tame the giant.