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Skywatch: Putting Earth’s largest telescope into focus
The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...
See the Mind-Blowing First Images From a Revolutionary New Telescope
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...
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‘New era in astronomy.’ Penn State helps develop world’s most powerful survey telescope
The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.
First images unveiled from world’s largest camera, built in the Bay Area
The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...
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On a clear night, Hubble Space Telescope is visible with naked eye
Enter the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into Earth orbit 35 years ago this week (April 24) aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. With a diameter of “only” 94 inches, it’s hardly ...
The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...
There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours
Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...
The first images from Vera Rubin telescope are about to drop
In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.