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Past Event
Public lecture
Cosmic Dawn: The First Star in the Universe
What was the first thing in the Universe? A black hole or a star? How did it form? Even our biggest and best telescopes...
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Illustration
The largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy, the 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera is the size of a small...
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Photograph
The LSST camera will sit atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope high in the Andes of Chile.
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