The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view
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- 3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera Captures Over Half a Million Galaxies PetaPixel · 6d ago
- Rubin Looks Deep Into a Famous Cosmic Field NOIRLab · 6d ago
- Spoiler alert! Here’s what astronomers will see in a first-of-its-kind ‘movie’ of the sky Scientific American · 6d ago
- Rubin Observatory begins landmark 10-year timelapse of night sky Technology Org · 6d ago
- The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view The Times of India · 6d ago broke it first
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