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On September 1, a team at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre released the largest digital picture ever taken: 3200 megapixels. Assuming you are using one of the latest smartphones, you would need to take and stitch 250 photos together to achieve the same picture size. The subject of this historic picture was an old black and white photograph of Vera Rubin, an astronomer whose work led to the discovery of dark matter. As a big step forward in the recognition of women’s contributions in astronomy, she is now the first woman to have a large observatory named after…
