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Wyoming Stargazing, an astronomy non-profit, is hosting a free online speaker series this spring and summer. The next featured speaker is Suzanne Ramsay from the European Southern Observatory in Munich.
Ramsay is the instrumentation project manager for the Extremely Large Telescope, which will have a mirror that s 39 meters across when it s finished being built. The current telescopes that astronomers use around the world are the largest ones for the optical and infrared astronomy that we re talking about they re eight to ten meters in diameter, she said. It s a huge jump in size.
Ramsay said that increase in size helps astronomers see fainter and more distant objects.
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