This Single Telescope Might Find Hidden Planets and Alien Spacecraft

Dec 25 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was a huge boon to space science when it launched into orbit on Christmas Day last year. But the $10-billion JWST, for all its amazing capabilities, only sees a small sliver of the sky at a time—and only in a particular spectrum. The infrared spectrum.

That’s why scientists are so excited by the next big thing in giant telescopes. The Vera Rubin Observatory, perched...

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