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New MAVIS space telescope to trump Hubble – Canberra Weekly
ANU scientists will help construct one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes that promises to outdo the Hubble Space Telescope.
ANU scientists will help construct one of the worlds most powerful ground-based telescopes, known as MAVIS, that promises to see further and clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope and unlock mysteries of the early Universe.
The team will develop a new, world-first instrument that will produce images three times sharper than Hubble under the multimillion dollar project.
The MAVIS instrument will be fitted to one of the eight-metre Unit Telescopes at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESOs) Very…
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