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Credit: Giant Magellan Telescope - Carnegie Observatories

Credit: Giant Magellan Telescope - Carnegie Observatories

1 posted on 12/28/2008 3:13:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 12/28/2008 3:13:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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3 posted on 12/28/2008 3:20:42 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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Won’t be ready until about 2016 but I sure am looking forward to it.


4 posted on 12/28/2008 3:29:38 PM PST by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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What is its carbon foot print??? If large, it must be destroyed.


5 posted on 12/28/2008 3:31:26 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Great patriotic stuff at www.patriotstore.us.)
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That's a big light catcher!

--- a resolving power ten times sharper than Hubble and five times sharper than its replacement.

6 posted on 12/28/2008 3:33:56 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'll go green when they plant me in the ground.)
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With a resolving power ten times sharper than Hubble and five times sharper than its replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope

They tried combining the two into a more powerful Webb Hubbell telescope ...

...but it kept rolling over.

11 posted on 12/28/2008 3:48:37 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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