Chile’s Vera Rubin telescope captures 2,100 new asteroids in just 10 hours. A powerful new eye in the sky. Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its mission to observe the universe ...

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The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

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Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first cosmic images using its impressive 3,200-megapixel camera.

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

The state-of-the-art observatory sits on a mountain summit in Chile at a little over 8,000 feet above sea level.

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