Topic: astronomical research
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Two Giants Vie to Build the World's Largest Telescope
The astronomical community has been racing to build next-generation ground-based optical telescopes with mirrors around 30 meters or larger, aiming for unprecedented light-gathering power to observe the cosmos with greater depth and clarity, though projects have faced significant funding and logi...
Read More » Rubin Observatory: Inside Its Operations & Stunning First Photos
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a groundbreaking facility featuring advanced engineering and data capabilities, designed to map the cosmos in unprecedented ways. Its key components include the rapid-moving Simonyi Survey Telescope, an 8.4-meter primary mirror, and the world's largest digital cam...
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Lead to Gold: How Physicists Achieved Alchemy
Modern physics has achieved the symbolic goal of alchemy by creating gold atoms through nuclear physics, specifically at CERN's Large Hadron Collider during experiments studying quark-gluon plasma. The process produced an astronomically large number of gold nuclei (86 billion), but the actual mas...
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