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These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

The National Science Foundation has shared the first images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing 10 million ...

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A super-Earth, Kepler-725c, about 10 times Earth's mass, has been detected in the habitable zone of a sun-like star using the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique.