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The Gemini Telescope
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The Gemini telescope at Cerro Pachon, Chile, with a mirror 8 meters (315 inches) in diameter, is only one of several huge
new observatories with innovative designs that continue to
probe our Milky Way galaxy and far beyond.
Credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF (National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association
of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation)

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