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"Enjoy it. See it with your own eyes," Emily Rice, an astronomer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, told Mashable. Rice also works with the American Astronomical Society.
The National Science Foundation’s newest facility, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is named after the astronomer credited with the first evidence of dark matter.