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To decode dark energy, the Rubin Observatory will find millions of exploding vampire stars
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding ...
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To decode dark energy, the Rubin Observatory will find millions of exploding vampire stars
Currently under construction on the Chilean mountain Cerro Pachón, the Rubin Observatory is expected to begin its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) later this year. An influx of data ...
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Rubin Observatory aces 1st image tests, gets ready to use world's largest digital camera
That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...
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Rubin Observatory aces 1st image tests, gets ready to use world's largest digital camera
The Rubin Observatory milestone comes after 10 years of construction and a seven-week shakedown test that began in October 2024. Those tests included the first images taken with an engineering ...
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Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious ... Making steel produces a lot of greenhouse-gas emissions. Now, construction is underway in Sweden on an industrial-scale plant that will emit ...
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Industrial Complex Proposal Threatens Some of the World’s Clearest Skies for Astronomy
the Rubin Observatory (which hosts the world’s largest digital camera), and the under-construction Giant Magellan Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory. The LSST Camera at the Rubin ...
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Carnegie History Timeline
Rubin Observatory in honor of the late Carnegie astronomer whose ... The Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center is founded and construction is complete on its flagship initiative, the 3D virtual ...