The 305-meter (-m) Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has a resolution that is closest to that of
A) the Hubble Space Telescope (0.1 arcsec) .
B) a human eye (1 arcmin) .
C) the Chandra X-ray telescope (0.5 arcsec) .
D) a 1-m optical telescope (1 arcsec) .
E) one of the 10-m Keck telescopes (0.0133 arcsec) .
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