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Perhaps you've seen pictures of the large array of, you know, those radio telescopes in New Mexico, scanning the skies for [blank] life in the movie "Contact." Well, radiant astronomers have caused to [blank] the first phase of a giant new Radio Telescope Array went [blank] in Northern California, it's going to help astronomers study things like black holes and dark [blank] . All the while scanning the stars for, who knows, radio [blank] coming from somewhere else in the universe. Maybe ET is phoning home.

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Perhaps you've seen pictures of the large array of, you know, those radio telescopes in New Mexico, scanning the skies for intelligent life in the movie "Contact." Well, radiant astronomers have caused to celebrate the first phase of a giant new Radio Telescope Array went operational in Northern California, it's going to help astronomers study things like black holes and dark galaxies . All the while scanning the stars for, who knows, radio signals coming from somewhere else in the universe. Maybe ET is phoning home.
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