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World’s Most Advanced Mirror for Giant Telescope Completed

Scientists at the UA and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made. This mirror, and six more like it, will form the heart of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope, which will explore planets around other stars and the formation of stars, galaxies and black holes in the early universe.

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