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Looking Way Out There from Way Out There
Learn what astronomers are cooking up for the coming decades in space: the James Webb Space Telescope will open up new horizons in the infrared, and Hubble could be replaced by an even more powerful workhorse optical ‘scope called ATLAST. Others are hoping to set up a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon — where interference from television or cell phones on Earth would be completely blocked.

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