Livingston, Louisiana—The road from New Orleans to this small town in Livingston Parish crosses great expanses of water and swamps. Mist often engulfs the trees, and the air feels as turbid as the prose in a bad novel by Anne Rice. It seems an unlikely place to build an astrophysical observatory. Nonetheless, a bold new observatory has arisen here, and it promises to expose details of the most exotic events in the cosmos today.
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