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And in that moment, the term spiral nebula was born, so pretty neat stuff. So a note on that Leviathan scope, this was built in Ber, Ireland. The Leviathan remained one of the world's largest scopes for over 70 years. Eventually it fell into disuse and was then restored in the 1990s and now stands again, not as a research telescope, but as a kind of a piece of history. One that kind of turned, you know, as a turning point in terms of what we thought of nebula and what that thing turned out to be, a galaxy. And some of the original mirrors are now housed in the Science Museum in London.