Private and Billionaire-Backed Initiatives Drive Next-Gen Space and Ground Telescopes
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A billionaire-backed organization, Schmidt Sciences, is developing a suite of four observatories, including Lazuli, a large space telescope comparable to Hubble but at a fraction of the cost and in a shorter timeframe, aiming for launch around 2028 to advance astrophysics and cosmology research.
Topics:science#cosmology#ground-based-observatories#lazuli#schmidt-sciences#science-and-technology#space-telescope
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