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Ciencia y Tecnología|Un observatorio en Chile busca revelar los secretos del Universohttps://www.nytimes.com/es/2025/06/19/espanol/ciencia-y-tecnologia/chile-observatorio-camara-universo.htmlYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jonathan Corum |Kenneth Chang |Marcos Zegers

A series of slides highlighting details of the digital camera’s focal plane, which is a grid of complex sensors. The camera was assembled in a clean room at the observatory before installation. Its focal plane is just over two feet wide: a grid of sensors sealed in a vacuum and supercooled to minus 148 Fahrenheit to prevent grainy or speckled images. Each sensor is about 1.6 inches wide and holds over 16 million pixels. The sensors are grouped into 21 rafts of nine sensors each.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Katrina Miller |Marcos Zegers

Science|The Universe’s Darkest Mysteries Are Coming Into Focushttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/science/telescope-vera-rubin-dark-matter.htmlYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. To reach the top of Cerro Pachón, a mountain at the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, astronomers take a drive of two hours up a winding, bumpy road.