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Ninety-Four Nights in 2019

In a valley near Penticton, British Columbia, there is a telescope with no moving parts. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, is four half-pipes of steel mesh, each 100 metres long and 20 metres wide. A line of 1,024 dual-polarization receivers hangs above them. CHIME …