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The multi-billion pixel, multi-colour, all-sky-surveying Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is getting ready to go into its main construction phase, with America's National Science Foundation approving the build budget. The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) has announced the NSF funding here. Overall …

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  1. Denarius
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    finally the myth becomes useful

    At least this telescope data will be of use for real astronomy instead of the search for cosmological phlogiston

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    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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      Of course, no other telescope before it has ever been used for real astronomy, just for taking pretty pictures.

      Nice to know that. With all we've learned with the pretty pictures up to now, I can't wait to see what we'll learn when we finally start doing real astronomy !

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      1. Denarius
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        what are you on about ? or on ?

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  2. Robert Helpmann??
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    Think of the Children!

    “By digitally imaging the sky for a decade, the LSST will produce a petabyte-scale database enabling new paradigms of knowledge discovery for transformative STEM education. LSST will address the most pressing questions in astronomy and physics, which are driving advances in big data science and computing.”

    This is what you get when you run "We will use this telescope for basic science and keep records of what we did," through a manager-speak/buzzword generator several times.

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  3. willi0000000

    *sigh*

    i can hardly wait for the funding cut announcement.

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