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Contact: Donna McKinney
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Naval Research Laboratory
Caption: The Herschel telescope is almost entirely made of silicon carbide, a highly polishable, stable, and lightweight ceramic material and coated with a very thin layer of aluminum, for reflectivity.
Credit: European Space Agency
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