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WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.
Today is: 12 March, 2010
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A really BIG telescope
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European astronomers are planning to build an optical telescope that is four times bigger than any in existence.
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