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Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

The most powerful digital camera ever built has released its first pictures of the universe. Beautiful galaxies shine in the images that show a vast picture of colourful nebulae and stars. They come ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this, it uses the Simonyi Survey Telescope and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C.

High in the mountains of Chile, a new telescope equipped with the world’s largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined, and promises to ...

Tour the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's views of the Virgo cluster, Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas. Credit: ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

Each night, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues thousands of alerts about changes in the night sky. (NOIRLab / NSF / DOE-SC Illustration) An astronomical alert system developed at the University of ...

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Wake up, astronomers—the universe is calling. The astronomical observatory equipped with world’s largest camera hit a key milestone on February 24, when a complex data-processing system pushed ...