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This Single Telescope Might Find Hidden Planets and Alien Spacecraft

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The Vera Rubin telescope could play a more important role in astronomy than any instrument before it.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was a huge boon to space science when it went into orbit on Christmas Day last year. But the $10 billion JWST, for

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