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“Where are we?”, “where do we come from?”, or better “what is It?”. Fifty years ago I decided to become an astronomer, inspired by the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The radio data would bring me into deep space and help answer big questions.

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Valentijn, E.A. (2021). Introduction. In: Valentijn, E.A. (eds) Powers of Two. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58345-3_1

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