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Jason Snell
@snell.zone

In its first year of operation, the VRO is expected to capture images of more objects than all objects optically observed in the history of humanity (!)

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

And we're off! My most favourite telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory, has turned on its public alert stream and boy, were there a lot of changes in the Universe last night. More coming: ~7 million a night 😮: exploding stars, belching black holes, asteroids cruising through the solar system. 🤗🔭🧪

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