Vera C Rubin observatory, Chile

Star trails in the sky behind the shell-like observatory building
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Star trails in the sky behind the shell-like observatory building
https://www.planetary.org/articles...
Photo by Hernan Stockebrand

'Last year, atop a remote mountain in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory began a decade-long survey of the night sky. Equipped with the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin is expected to discover about 35,000 new Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and increase the known population of the Kuiper belt nearly tenfold'

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