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World’s largest 1,140-lens telescope begins construction to map the cosmic web

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

For a monster-sized challenge in astronomy, summon MOTHRA

MOTHRA has the equivalent light-gathering power of a single telescope 4.7 metres across, but its off-the-shelf optics makes it less costly. The data captured by all those lenses can be combined into a ...

Canon lenses help create the eye of MOTHRA

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others ...

One of the UK’s richest people is building a telescope to find the ‘architecture of the ...

The new MOTHRA telescope hopes to reveal the “cosmic web”, which huge network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies across the cosmos. It aims to do so by using a specific kind of telescope – ...
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iTWire - Square Kilometre Array telescope goes up in Western Australia

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope is being developed on a site at Boolardy in Western Australia. The telescope project hopes to bring the much larger SKA project to ...
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iTWire - Australia hopeful of radio telescope Square Kilometer Array

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is a major proposed telescope project that will scan the skies in the light and radio range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is designed to offer a large collecting ...