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Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang

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By Michael Doig on Sunday, August 23, 2009
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CNN.com – “the powerful devices will be able to show what the universe was like when it was just a few hundred million years old and emerging from a period of total darkness after the Big Bang.”

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