Artist's Concept of the Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Artist's Concept of the Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope

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The VIRUS spectrographs are contained in the curved gray "saddlebags" on the side of the telescope. They receive light through the green cables, which contain bundles of fiber-optic lines. This illustration shows the telescope without its enclosing dome.

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McDonald Observatory/HETDEX Collaboration

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