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VISTA gets down to work

No, not Vista the operating system. This is the newest and biggest telescope on Earth: VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy). Its size (the main mirror is 4.1 meters across), bulk (the camera alone weighs 3 tons) and power (16 special detectors for infrared light with a total of 67 million pixels of [...]
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