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Article

Publication Date

7-13-2025

Abstract

After years of planning and construction, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has collected its "first light" from space, and the first images have been released to the public.

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This article was published in the Inside Out column of the News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) and is available to read in The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) through the NewsBank database: Making observations.

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