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Surveying the sky with one of the world’s most advanced telescopes

Astronomers with the Vera Rubin Observatory are on track to start their work early next year.
by Tony Perkins

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Astronomers with the Vera Rubin Observatory are on track to start their work early next year. Project outreach and education director Alan Strauss discusses how they will use the largest camera ever built to take a highly-detailed time-lapse look at our universe.

Alan Strauss spoke with Tim Swindle, professor emeritus of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona.

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