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The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

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A new map of the Milky Way’s atomic hydrogen, anchored by precise distances to young Cepheid stars, reveals the galaxy’s gas disk is highly clumped and flocculent rather than smooth.

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The Harvard astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt had pioneered the use of Cepheid variable stars to measure distances, and using her method, Shapley had calculated that the Milky Way was 300,000 ...