Perched atop the windswept heights of Chile’s Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its ambitious survey of the night sky, capturing the universe in unprecedented detail with the world’s largest digital camera. In its very first ten hours of operation, the...
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BBC News - Planck telescope observes cosmic giants
A supercluster of galaxies as it appears in Planck data (l) and in XMM data (r). Such structures contain hundreds of billions of suns
The Planck space telescope has identified some of the largest structures ever seen in the Universe...