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...radio astronomers are getting a movable telescope that is bigger and more precise than any they have ever had before. It is a huge, 328-ft. paraboloid nestled in West Germany's Eifel hills at Effelsberg, about 25 miles southwest of Bonn. More than 75 feet larger than the existing record holder, Britain's big Jodrell Bank radio antenna, the steel-and-aluminum instrument is now undergoing its final checkouts before it begins scanning the heavens in earnest this fall...
Radio astronomers expect great things of their newest tool. Present telescopes have detected 20,000 sources of radio emissions in the sky. Effelsberg should increase that number considerably...
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