12-11-2015 01:22 via news.yahoo.com

Chile breaks ground on world's largest telescope

Chile broke ground Wednesday on a massive telescope that is set to be the world's largest and will allow astronomers to look back to the earliest moments after the Big Bang. The Giant Magellan Telescope, an international project designed to take astronomy into the next decade, will begin operations in 2021 and provide images 10 times clearer than the Hubble space telescope, organizers said. "The Giant Magellan Telescope will revolutionize our view and understanding of the universe, and allow us
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