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neutrino telescope

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neutrino telescope [nü′trē·nō ′tel·ə‚skōp]
(astronomy)
Any device for detecting and determining the directions of extraterrestrial neutrinos, such as the deep underwater muon and neutrino detector.


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Recently, a decade-long effort to build a Cerenkov-light--detecting neutrino telescope has finally begun to pay off.
The news is that, after 30 to 40 years of people dreaming about a large neutrino telescope, it finally exists, and it works, and it can be expanded to a kilometer cube," says Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
 
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