Large Binocular TelescopeThe new Large Binocular Telescope has captured images. Its first image has finally been released after 20 years of planning, development and construction. The credit goes to the astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. The telescope has the power to gather light 24 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope. The so-called LBT, an American-German-Italian joint venture stationed on the 3,190-meter-high Mt. Graham in Arizona, will be able to image planets circling distant stars and is poised to help answer fundamental questions about the universe, including how galaxies, stars and planets evolved from the big bang.



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