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The largest optical telescope in the world today is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Grand Canary Telescope) in Spain, with an effective diameter of 10.4 meters. The world's largest individual radio telescope is the RATAN-600 in Russia, with the effective diameter of a 600 meter dish.

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