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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Caption: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory in West Texas. HET is a joint project of a joint project of UT-Austin, The Pennsylvania State University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Observatory/UT-Austin

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