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[00:00.00]Australian scientists are leading an international project 
[00:04.57]to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope. 
[00:10.12]The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look 
[00:16.83]into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.
[00:20.73]The telescope's short name is MAVIS. 
[00:25.63]That stands for Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph.
[00:34.69]It is designed to correct a problem common to Earth based telescopes: 
[00:41.83]image blurring caused by atmospheric conditions.
[00:46.86]Scientists in Australia say the new technology 
[00:52.09]will help them explore how the first stars formed 13 billion years ago. 
[00:58.55]The telescope will also examine changes in the weather 
[01:03.81]on planets and moons in our solar system.
[01:08.19]Images produced by MAVIS are expected to be three times 
[01:13.90]clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope. 
[01:17.53]Launched in 1990, Hubble orbits Earth from about 550 kilometers away, 
[01:25.55]well outside the planet's atmosphere.
[01:29.93]Richard McDermid of Macquarie University in Sydney says 
[01:34.54]the new telescope will change the way we explore space.
[01:39.54]He said the telescope will permit scientists "to push into a new frontier 
[01:46.42]of the furthest and faintest things we can see."
[01:51.07]The new view will include the universe's earliest galaxies. 
[01:57.61]This also means an exploration of the past, McDermid explained, 
[02:03.39]"because when we look far away in astronomy we are also looking far back in time 
[02:09.36]because it takes time for the light to reach us."
[02:13.58]The telescope will be placed in Chile and run by the European Southern Observatory, 
[02:20.79]a research organization based in Germany. 
[02:25.17]It is expected to take seven years to build and cost $44 million.
[02:33.71]The MAVIS team is led by The Australian National University. 
[02:38.73]The team also includes scientists from Macquarie University, 
[02:44.51]Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics and France's Laboratoire d'Astrophysique.
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