Cosmic census begins as Rubin Observatory launches decade-long sky survey
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has officially begun its 10-year survey to image the southern sky, taking hundreds of images per night to build a deep census of billions of stars and galaxies and to probe dark matter and dark energy, with researchers hoping to shed light on how galaxies form and cluster over cosmic time.
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