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Europe’s new space telescope

New instruments to probe the origins of the universe.

Two new space telescopes launched by the European Space Agency on May 14, are designed peer into deep space for at least the next three years. One of the telescopes, Herschel, has a primary mirror that is four times larger than that on any previous space telescope.

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