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Chilean mountaintop
Coverage of Chilean mountaintop in the Nexus archive.
- The largest digital camera ever built begins decade-long survey of the universe
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the largest digital camera ever built, has begun a decade-long survey of the universe from a Chilean mountaintop. It aims to map billions of stars and galaxies, study dark matter and dark energy, and capture repeated images of the southern sky to detect faint celestial objects.