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[Truth or Fail]

Finding llamas with telescope vibration

Predicting weather with telescopes and clouds

Tracking bees with LIDAR

[Trivia Question]

Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea (or STTARS) length https://www.nasa.gov/universe/how-to-...
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/fo...

[Fact Off]

Artificial guide stars made from lasers for optical telescopes on Earth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...
https://www.llnl.gov/news/guide-star-...
https://www.degruyter.com/document/do...
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/c...

Gravitational lensing and turning space itself into a telescope

[Ask the Science Couch]

The history of radio telescopes (first non-optical telescope)
https://massivesci.com/articles/radio...
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/p...
https://public.nrao.edu/news/silent-a...
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/05_radio...

[Butt One More Thing]

Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) & Gamma-Ray Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/202...
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/space...


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