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fromThe Verge
7 hours ago

The first privately funded space-based telescope is in the works

Lazuli's design features a 3.1-meter mirror, which would make it larger than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (but smaller than the James Webb Space Telescope). It will also be equipped with a wide-field camera, a broadband integral-field spectrograph, and a coronagraph. Those instruments will be used to study everything from exoplanets to supernovae, but Schmidt Sciences also envisions Lazuli being used for "rapid response" purposes, such as quickly swiveling to gather data on objects spotted by other telescopes.
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fromNature
1 month ago
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The visionary physicist who gave us a new way to view the cosmos

The Vera Rubin Observatory will rapidly image the southern sky with the world's largest digital camera to map dark matter, discover transient phenomena, and track hazardous asteroids.
fromBig Think
2 months ago
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Astounding stream of stars caught escaping from nearby galaxy

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will rapidly survey the entire sky with an unprecedented 3200-megapixel camera to discover Solar System objects, transients, and advance cosmology.
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