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Bernardo Riedel: Brazil's famous astronomer and telescope builder

02:08 Bernardo Riedel is a folk hero for amateur astronomers around the world.Now aged 80, the retired university professor from Brazil has made, by hand, nearly 2500 telescopes, in a

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China to open giant telescope to international scientists in April

China will officially open its 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope's (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, to international scientists starting Ap

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China to play important role in building more powerful telescopes to observe distant galaxies

The latest estimation that there might be 10 times more galaxies in the universe than previously thought requires more powerful telescopes to observe the "missing" galaxies and China can be a strong player in this field, astronomers said.