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We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

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Astronauts repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope during the first servicing mission to that orbital observatory, in 1993. NASA is now studying how telescopes far larger than Hubble might ...