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Re:The extremely large telescope will transform astronomy by tetris11 on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:45AM (#38566724)
Is there not a cost towards it being so large that it becomes comically too large to clean?
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Re:The extremely large telescope will transform astronomy by Synaesthesia on Friday December 08, 2023 @05:50AM (#38567517)
They mentioned in this article that this mirror is so large that the mirror segments cannot support their own weight.
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