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Poof! Mountain Blows Its Top To Make Way For Huge Telescope

Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:50
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All’s clear for the world’s largest telescope to start construction on a mountaintop in Chile! That puff you see is the top of Cerro Armazones getting a 40-meter (131-foot) haircut, losing a million tons of rock in just a few seconds.

The aim is to clear the way for the European Extremely Large Telescope, a 39-meter (128-foot) monster of a telescope to occupy the mountain’s top.

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