Watch: Why has Russia placed its new space telescope underwater in Lake Baikal?
The telescope has been designed to study subatomic particles called neutrinos that are extremely hard to detect.
VIDEO: Russian scientists launch one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes that will study the mysteries of the universe while floating in the pristine waters of Lake Baikal pic.twitter.com/LgBDCyrw31
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