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...years, a 1.3-m telescope on Mount Stromlo, in Australia, mounted with sophisticated digital cameras, will methodically search for MACHOs by peering at stars in the nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. If MACHOs exist, explains physicist Christopher Stubbs of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who helped design the experiment, they should occasionally pass between the earth and these background stars. Because gravity bends light, the MACHOs would act as lenses, causing the stars temporarily to brighten enough for the cameras to detect...
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