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World’s largest 1,140-lens telescope begins construction to map the cosmic web

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

For a monster-sized challenge in astronomy, summon MOTHRA

MOTHRA has the equivalent light-gathering power of a single telescope 4.7 metres across, but its off-the-shelf optics makes it less costly. The data captured by all those lenses can be combined into a ...