Port Coquitlam's Dynamic Industries designed the telescope's enclosure and hopes to fabricate it from 5,000 tonnes of steel.

Dynamic Structures made headlines for its significant role in constructing what’s billed as the most powerful optical telescope on Earth. The Port Coqutlam company also builds roller coasters and other amusement park rides.

If the inventors of a so-called game-changing telescope have their way, there will be a lot more discoveries about our solar system, galaxy and the universe.