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The Mirror Lab

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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The Mirror Flower Telescope in the Atacama Desert

Scientists are making giant house sized mirrors, ultimately to create this mirror flower telescope in the atacama desert. It takes four years to complete one of these mirrors. Step one is that you just have to order a ton of glass,. then they cut it all up and they lay it out on the bed of an enormous furnace. Inside the furnace it's a almost 12 hundred degrees c, or 21 hundred fahrenheit, outside. Outside it'll be in the eighties, maybe get up ninty, right near the the high point in temperature.

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