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> In Rubin’s first year alone, scientists expect the observatory to find 1 million undiscovered asteroids — as many as have been documented in the previous 200 years of human history — as well as thousands of comets and billions of stars and galaxies.

Why stop at 200 years? It's also 300 years and 400 years, or 4 billion years :P


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thrownthatwaytoday at 9:43 AM

When did old mate first point a telescope in to the night sky?

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