Powerful 'megamaser' space laser spotted by South African telescope

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Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space

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This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth. The light from this space laser traveled a whopping 36 thousand billion billion miles to reach our planet. An international team of astronomers, led by Marcin Glowacki, observed this light, using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory's MeerKAT telescope.

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