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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Knowing how astronomers typically name these things that could legitimately be the actual name for this telescope.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I came here to voice this exact thought and now I don't know whether that makes me unoriginal or if it just means that astronomers are crazy.

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