Giant OWL for outer space. (Research Notes).

Researchers and engineers are hard at work at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany, as they prepare to embark on a seventeen-year task. Their goal is to build the world's largest ground-based telescope, dubbed the OWL. The name OWL is both a tribute to the keen-eyed night prowler and a ...

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