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The telescope big bear is located in the Southern California. According to the wikipedia page, water can cool the observatory. Is it better to build it on a cold high mountain with stable and clear

Wernher von Braun, a German in the United States Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (Germany, 1912 - United States 1977), was an important German aerospace engineer who became a United States national in 1955. His professional career was decisive for travel around the United States. space and the arrival of man on the moon.

Given the recently-announced observations from VLT/SPHERE that 10 Hygiea may be sufficiently round to qualify as the second main-belt dwarf planet, I found myself perusing Wikipedia's Hydrostatic

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