With the arrival of the new “Fantastic Four: First Steps” film, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed its own new superhero, a fiber optic insrument known as the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST). What is it? 4MOST is an instrument made of approximately 2436 individual fibers, with each collecting light from different sources simultaneously. This allows the telescope to …
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