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Thu 04 Apr 2003Light fantastic
An Irish physicist has moved to Nevada to do experiments that could help our understanding of deep space. Dick Ahlstrom reports
The light travelling towards us from bright objects in deep space has a tough job getting here. It can get bent by black holes, scrambled by ionised matter and blocked by dust, all factors that make it difficult for astronomers to understand what the light reaching us actually means.
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