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1/2 Thousands of eyes on the sky: 4MOST sees first light 馃帀
Installed on our VISTA telescope in #Chile, 4MOST has completed the first test observations over the weekend.
It is the largest facility of its kind to survey the southern skies. It can capture the light of thousands of cosmic objects simultaneously, using more than 2400 thin optical fibres, each about the width of a human hair.
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2/2 4MOST is expected to analyse more than 25 million different objects during its first five years of operation, to unravel our galactic history, explore the mysteries of dark matter, and investigate the origins of stars, among many other science goals.
Learn more: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25007/
And for a deep dive into the instrument with some of the 4MOST team members, check out the latest ESO blog: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/4most/
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