This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from
On the left is a cutout from a crowded field (visit id=2025070100200) centered on 3I/ATLAS. The red ring represents the LSST Science Pipeline’s aperture photometry radius (see Section 4.7). In
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