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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma

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    Four giant LST telescopes open at La Palma for the CTAO gamma-ray observatory

    Four 23-metre Large-Sized Telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma were inaugurated on 15 October 2026, completing the northern LST subsystem of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory.

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