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This Giant Telescope Will Reveal The Universe in Unbelievable Detail
Equipped with an 8.4-meter mirror and a 3.2-billion-pixel camera—the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy—the Rubin Observatory is poised to revolutionize how we see the cosmos. In just 10 hours of test observations, the telescope detected over 2,100 new asteroids.
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Journey back to the beginning of everything: the universe, Earth, and life itself.
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Will experimental particle physics confirm the wild predictions of string theory?
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Do miniscule vibrating strands of energy hold the key to a unified theory of physics?
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Combining the laws of the universe in one theory that explains it all is the Holy Grail
