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NASA's rescue mission to save the Swift Observatory satellite failed, and the satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere by the end of the year, but it will continue to capture astronomical data until then.
Charles Ross spent 50 years building Star Axis, a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico, as an art-science project.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun initial observations, already discovering rapidly spinning asteroids, supernovas, and a potential interstellar visitor, heralding a new era of big-data astronomy.