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The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist's Magnum Opus
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail.
On June 23, 2025, Tony Tyson joined a presentation in Washington, D.C., to unveil an image almost 30 years in the making: 10 million galaxies poised on an inky black backdrop. Tyson used the technology to make the first high-resolution map of dark matter, the mysterious, heavy substance that binds galaxies together like an invisible glue. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a joint project of the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, sits on Cerro Pachón, a mountain in Chile.
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