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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

Observatory on Cerro Tololo mountain in the Chilean Andes, operated by AURA (the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy). Its main instrument is a 4-m/158-in reflector, opened in 1974, a twin of that at Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.



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8 of this year, as the team prepared for new observations of supernova 1987A, they pointed the Cerro Tololo telescope at the Crab nebula, site of a well-studied pulsar, and recorded the identical
Pulsar mystery ends: the TV camera did it by Young, P. / Science News
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