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Last broadcast on Thu, 7 May 2009, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Second of two programmes in which Andrew Luck-Baker meets today's telescope builders and astronomers.
He meets the scientists behind the Large Binocular Telescope, which will image the universe in even greater detail than the Hubble telescope.
Andrew talks to the astronomers who expect to see planets orbiting and being born around distant stars with the telescope. He also meets the technologists who designed and constructed the revolutionary observatory with its twin 8.4 metre diameter mirrors, and visits the spinning furnaces in which the giant reflectors were made. The LBT is a trailblazer for astronomical technologies in the next generation of super-massive telescopes.
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Thu 7 May 200921:00
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