Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

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giant camera black segmented tube with lens inside on a white engineering mount in a cleanroom with a person in a white cleansuit standing at the bottom of the lens that rises about five feet above the person's head
Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.

Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

NASA's James Webb telescope spotted a strange 13 billion-year-old galaxy that shouldn't exist

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A picture shows several early galaxies. One is highlighted with an arrow
An arrow points to JWST-7329, a rare massive galaxy that is thought to be 13 billion years old.

JWST NIRCAM

China opens the world's deepest and largest underground laboratory 7,800 feet below a mountain to hunt for dark matter

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An aerial photo shows entrances carved into a mountain.
A photo shows the tunnel entrance of the China Jinping Underground Laboratory in China's Sichuan Province on November 8, 2023.

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