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Old 22-May-2007, 05:02 PM
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Astronomers are always trying to get their hands on bigger and more powerful telescopes. But the most powerful telescopes in the Universe are completely natural, and the size of a galaxy cluster. ...

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Thats sweet...if im understanding this the way this works is a galaxy cluster distorts the sorounding "space" to make it look like or act like a magnifien glass. thats cool how that works.
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