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Topic: astronomy

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile
Science
Friday, 7/24, 10:53 AM

A New Telescope Begins a 10-Year Movie of the Entire Sky

  • In the mountains of Chile, the new Vera C.
  • Rubin Observatory has started a decade-long survey that will photograph the whole visible sky every three nights, using the largest digital camera ever built.
  • Astronomers expect it to catalog tens of billions of stars and galaxies and to catch the universe in the act of changing.
The Tycho supernova remnant, seen in X-rays
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Millions of exploding stars could soon help crack the riddle of dark energy

  • A new generation of sky surveys is about to record more exploding stars than ever before — and astronomers have built an artificial-intelligence method to turn that flood of supernovae into one of the sharpest tests yet of dark energy, the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

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