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5000 robots are being assembled to look billions of years back in time

Comet ISON is seen in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) on November 8 at 5:40 a.m. EST (1040 GMT), courtesy of NASA.

The robots will point fiber-optics cables at the light of a million galaxies, to create a giant 3D map. Image: Reuters/ NASA

Ali Sundermier
Science Reporter, Business Insider
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