Three teams are racing each other to build the next generation of telescopes that would dramatically dwarf the largest on Earth today. Eric Hand checks out the competition.
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Eric Hand covers physics and astronomy from Nature's Washington DC office.
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Hand, E. Astronomy: Eyes as big as the sky. Nature 452, 142–145 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452142a
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