While still unable to observe the actual beginning of the universe (signs of which are reckoned to be 15 billion light-years away), the telescope will be able to detect some of the earliest objects to condense from the primordial gas.

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Its device is basically a giant still, 6 feet tall by 20 inches wide, that uses low-cost heat to evaporate and then condense water from dissolved salts and other industrial contaminants.

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The insect harvests moisture from the air by first getting it to condense on its back and then storing the water.

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As Pluto recedes from the Sun, much of its thin nitrogen atmosphere will condense as frost on the surface.

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