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We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

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The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

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An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Light streaks caused by passing satellites mar images taken by the world's most expensive telescopes. The problem is set to ...