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The Dark Energy Survey photographed the night sky using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a division of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab

A large blue disc with the top portion open has a has a big white instrument sitting at its center. This instrument sits atop a yellow stand. In a large room with a flight of stairs, the whole instrument is large, much taller than the flight of stairs and equally wide.