With wires and soda cans, a 12-year-old Senegalese boy built a telescope that allows him to see the surface of the Moon

The interest in space phenomena and the hours of reading the book, The Whole Universe, was what prompted Malick Ndiaye to design a telescope with the few resources he had. The boy born in Senegal, just 12 years old, used some old high-magnification glasses that his father used, a camera lens, wire, paper, cans and …

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