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Exploration, astronomy and the space economy.
A space telescope that sees in infrared, ground observatories with mirrors the size of buildings, and a survey that will photograph the whole southern sky every few nights. Each answers questions the last generation could only pose.
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Something holds galaxies together that no instrument has detected directly. After half a century of searching, the leading candidates are being ruled out one by one, and that is progress.
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No telescope can photograph the surface of a planet around another star. Astronomers learn what those worlds are made of anyway, from the shadows they cast and the light they filter.
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