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The primary goal of an optic is to gather light and recreate a crisp image. The reason for a large primary objective is to gather as much light as possible to see increasingly more distant objects. Crisp, highly detailed images come from what is called intferometry. This technique takes the output from multiple telescopes great distances apart and passes the data through a supercomputer that combines the image. Intferometers create what's called a "virtual telescope" whose resolution is comparable to that of a real telescope the size of the distance between the actual optics.

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