Meade LX200 ACF Reflector Telescope 14" w/ UHTC 1410-60-02

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The Universe - Cosmic Holes

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The Universe - Parallel Universes

Golden Year for Astronomy

After its invention more than 400 years ago, telescopes are still recognized as the greatest marvels of civilization. This year, the U.S. plans to launch new telescopes and maintain older ones in hopes of discovering a larger Multiverse.

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In a Big Year for Telescopes, Much Peering Into Wallets

By Joel Achenbach

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The big bang, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs, quasars, pulsars, cosmic rays, the space-time continuum, galaxies and more galaxies. Do you see what Galileo started?

It's been 400 years since University of Padua professor Galileo Galilei, a precocious Italian of relatively modest achievement, had the bright idea of turning a modified spyglass toward the night sky. What he saw forever shattered the ancient Earth-centered cosmos.

Four centuries later, telescopes are among the greatest marvels of civilization, and they reveal daily that the universe is vaster, stranger and more violent than Galileo could have imagined. He incited what has become a compulsion to tunnel deeper into the sky, and the universe shows no sign of running out of surprises.

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