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The LIGO Hanford gravitational-wave observatory in Washington, photographed for NOIRLab on 29 December 2023. This is a genuine archive photograph of a real detector facility used as contextual imagery; it does not depict a wormhole, a collision or a current event. Credit: NOIRLab/LIGO/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The original JPEG is preserved unchanged. hero.webp is a deterministic resize/re-encoding for web preview at 2400x1601; the original framing and content are preserved.

Original file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIGO_at_Hanford,_Washington_%28LIGO_Pic_09-CC%29.jpg
Original image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/LIGO_at_Hanford%2C_Washington_%28LIGO_Pic_09-CC%29.jpg
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
License terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Original photograph date: 2023-12-29
Real photograph: yes
Depicts the current event: False
Stored first-party; no generative edits, overlays, upscaling or new cropping.