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WORLD'S LARGEST CAMERA SHOWS GALAXY IN 3,200 MEGAPIXEL GLORY AS RUBIN TELESCOPE GOES ONLINE

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is finally online and photographing the galaxy. It found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of operation. The telescope will allow scientists to explore the cosmos in new ways at a scale that will enable discoveries that should fundamentally change our understanding of the universe. The observatory is located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, an 8,799-foot-high mountain in the Chilean Andes.