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One Telescope Project
October 10, 2012 | Slate

This article explores the lack of research telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere where conditions for observations are exceptional. Hakeem Oluseyi, an astronomer at the Florida Institute of Technology believes that every country should have at least one research telescope – today only three nations in Africa have one.


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