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Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) artist’s concept This artist's depiction shows FLUTE, a visionary space observatory concept with a massive 50-meter primary mirror crafted using fluidic shaping in microgravity. Edward Balaban presented this telescope design at the 2023 NIAC Symposium. FLUTE is designed to answer age-old questions about our place in the Universe and promises groundbreaking observations of faint astrophysical targets, including potentially habitable exoplanets. Edward Balaban