Giant Camera Takes Aim at the Universe!

Record-Breaking Size

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Two Decades of Work

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Nightly Sky Mapping

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Dark Energy and Dark Matter

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201 CCD Sensors

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Elusive Celestial Phenomena

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“Greatest Movie of All Time”

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