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The Developments: Optical interferometers

• World’s first optical “interferometry” COAST ? prototype for (most) future optical telescopes 2000 - ?

• The HST mirror is 2.5m diameter ? interferometer size of 100’s m ? 100’s times the resolution of HST.

50 mas

10 days later

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