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SANTIAGO - Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory , which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos, allowing astronomers to figure out how the solar system formed and even whether an asteroid poses a threat to Earth.Located on Pachon Hill in the northern region of Coquimbo, the 8.4-meter telescope has a 3,200-megapixel camera feeding a powerful data processing system.
"Rather than the usual couple of observations and writing an paper. No, I'll give you a million galaxies. I'll give you a million stars or a billion even, because we have them: 20 billion galaxy measurements," he said.The center is named after American astronomer Vera C. Rubin, a pioneer in finding conclusive evidence of the existence of large amounts of invisible material known as dark matter.
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