Named in honor of female astronomer Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation provided key evidence for dark matter, the Vera Rubin Observatory uses the world’s largest digital camera to peer at the night sky, looking for dark matter in our universe. What is it? This state-of-the-art facility houses the Simonyi Survey Telescope, which includes a 27.5 foot (8.4 …
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