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  • Harvesting data discovered in the stars

    Jun 4, 2025 2:30 pm by Megan Meave JohnsonDiscovery
    The Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Cerro Panchon in Chile, with the overhead Milky Way. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Quint

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    • The Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Cerro Panchon in Chile, with the overhead Milky Way. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Quint

    The Rubin Observatory project aims to conduct a 10-year optical survey of the visible sky. It's an enormous, decades-long undertaking and all that data requires an expert to help sort through it. That's where NCSA comes in.