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Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope

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A German radio telescope near Bad Munstereifel, completed in 1972 with a fully steerable 100-meter dish that was the largest steerable radio telescope in the world for nearly three decades. It remains a leading instrument for pulsar timing and Very Long Baseline Interferometry, operated by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.

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