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Rubin Observatory aces 1st image tests, gets ready to use world's largest digital camera
That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field ...
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Hubble snaps another gorgeous image of the Tarantula Nebula
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
LI astrophotographers capture deep space in living color
Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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Postal Service Announces New Stamps Feature Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with an image from NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian ...
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Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?
When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...