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LSST camera focal plane

LSST camera focal plane

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky about the size of 40 full moons.

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