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Every few nights from its perch in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will take a snapshot of the entire southern sky, enabling astronomers to look for objects – new asteroids, exploding stars – that have changed in the interim. As these images build up over ten years, they will also create a sharp and deep map of the universe that could shed light on mysterious dark matter and dark energy. Staff reporter Daniel Clery made the journey from England to Chile to see what it took to make this massive telescope operational.
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