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Duration: 00:31
Program: 400 Years of the Telescope
Broadcast Date: Aug. 10, 2011

Chronicle of the telescope's history visits the world's leading astronomers, cosmologists and observatories. NOVA's Neil deGrasse Tyson narrates.

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