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    Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation for an extremely large telescope...
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    into ongoing extremely large telescopes. GSMT: Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope, merged into TMT OWL: Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, passed over in favor...
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    feasibility study concluded the proposed 100 m (328 ft) diameter, Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, would cost €1.5 billion (£1 billion), and be too complex. Both...
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    The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...
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    Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), a 40-metre-class telescope based on a five-mirror design and the formerly planned Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. The ELT...
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    telescopes: the Thirty Metre Telescope [1], and the 100 m diameter Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. Amateur astronomers use such instruments as the Newtonian reflector...
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    The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...
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  • communications Orthotopic liver transplant, in medicine Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope Other uses: Orangutan Land Trust, a UK charity...
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  • Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented...
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    A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human. In astronomical disciplines...
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    Observatory to be located in Cerro Pachón Observatory (El Peñón). Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (planned but not yet initiated). Potential sites in Chile were...
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  • atmosphere OWL – (telescope) OverWhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed telescope with a primary mirror with a width of 100 m P60 – (telescope) Palomar 60-inch...
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    1958. It is home to what was the largest solar telescope in the world, and many large astronomical telescopes of the late 20th century in the United States...
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    have apparent magnitudes of 12–14 that are observable with amateur telescopes larger than 20 cm. The central region is dominated by two supergiant elliptical...
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    Xanadu, a large, reflective equatorial area about the size of Australia. It was first identified in infrared images from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994...
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  • chemical reaction. During hydrostatic burning these fuels synthesize overwhelmingly the alpha nuclides (A = 2Z), nuclei composed of integer numbers of helium-4...
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    purchased overseas and indigenous products, Israel also operates and maintains large stockpiles of Soviet-made equipment, captured from Arab armies over the...
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    in a Newtonian telescope. There, the star provides an almost ideal point source at infinity, and the secondary mirror of the telescope constitutes the...
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    closest approach in October 2011 the comet was undetected even by large ground-based telescopes. On September 21, 2012, Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok...
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    transition can cause that transition. However, the large distances between the quasars and the telescopes which detect them mean that the expansion of the...
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    (Hubble Space Telescope, 2016) at about z≈11.1 (about 400 million years cosmic time). Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched December...
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    horizon direct scattering of sunlight (Rayleigh scattering) is the overwhelmingly dominant source of light. In twilight, the period of time between sunset...
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    observed in 2003 by three of the Very Large Telescopes at Paranal, Chile, when Halley's magnitude was 28.2. The telescopes observed Halley, at the faintest...
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    Spaceship Earth The introduction to Stepanova et al. (2019) begins, "The overwhelmingly beautiful sight of our Earth triggers a profound emotional response...
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    called "Spectra of Bright Stars Photographed with the 11 inch Draper Telescope as Part of the Henry Draper Memorial", which included 4,800 photographs...
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  • colleges, answerable to the citizens in their areas. Ford County voted overwhelmingly to assume responsibility for the college, and in the fall of 1965, the...
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    sent back to random destinations. This effect can be used by network telescopes as indirect evidence of such attacks. The term backscatter analysis refers...
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    designed by Watson, and an interference investigation was ordered by Telescope Carts, Inc. alleging infringement of the patent in 1948. After a protracted...
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  • civilian-derived versions and some machine pistols. A collapsible (or telescoping) stock makes the weapon shorter and more compact for storage, carrying...
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