The team went on to use data from a range of other telescopes including the Very Large Telescope, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey and the Spitzer space telescope - each of which sees in a particular set of colours, in turn evidencing stars of varying ages.

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Thus, ESO decided that the combination of cost and risk was too unfavorable and hence pursued a telescope in the 30 to 60 meter range.

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