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PASADENA - Caltech has long had a history of building record- breaking telescopes.
In 1949, it opened Palomar Observatory near San Diego, which at the time had the world's biggest lens, more than 16 feet across. Today, Caltech's two Keck telescopes on the island of Hawaii are the largest eyes on the planet.See the full content of this document
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Grandiose Caltech Telescope in Sight
But neither can compare to the newest scope on the drawing board: The Thirty Meter Telescope. A gaping 100 feet across, it will dwarf even t...
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