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Biggest Digital Camera Ever Will Take Pics for Next Decade
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- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, has begun a 10-year cosmic survey to capture detailed images of the southern sky from its location on a Chilean mountaintop.
- The telescope will take hundreds of images each night, repeatedly photographing the same sky areas to detect fainter objects and map billions of stars and galaxies.
- Researchers aim to use Rubin's data to better understand galaxy formation, clustering, and the origins of the universe, as well as investigate dark matter and dark energy.
- Funded by the US National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, the observatory honors astronomer Vera Rubin, who first provided evidence of dark matter's existence.
- The project is expected to enable scientists worldwide to study the universe in unprecedented depth and detail through the extensive dataset generated.
