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Sir, Scientists do not always, it seems, wish to confound us with gobbledegook.

I note (“Astronomers get a ringside seat for star’s death blast”, Aug 31) that there is a very large telescope in Chile called Very Large Telescope.

NICK McIVER

Salisbury