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It's one of the three most powerful telescopes in the world. It is also the northernmost, built in the Arctic Circle as part of a collective agreement between the respective space agencies of the American and Russian governments.

It's positioned under a permanent hole in the ozone, uses mirrors more than 32 meters across, and employs the latest aperture masking and radial velocity imaging technology to deliver interstellar images of unparalleled clarity.

For the past two years Gardner-Kvashennaya International Telescope has been focused on a single planet Altilis-738.