Whatever the fuck this is:
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It's from an anti-lockdown, anti-vaxx, and anti-5G protest.
Okay... outta morbid curiosity I had to look up the Lucifer Telescope. I mean what kinda crazy shiznaz rumor could that be? A telescope thats pointed directly at hell? The power of the devil lets you see the future? OH! Maybe it lets you look into a fake past and thats how scientists come up with the origin of the universe theories?
NOPE!
The TLDR: People thought the Vatican owned a telescope named Lucifer... and thats it! Thats the conspiracy theory. And of course, its not true.
The Longer Story: It (was) the name of one part in a giant optical telescope that is part of an observatory in Arizona on Mount Graham. There are a lot of observatories at Mount Graham, one of which is actually owned by the Vatican! ... If your questioning why they own a observatory, just know the Vatican has a very long history with astronomy. I mean, Easter's date is 100% astrological.
Anyway the full name of the part is:
Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Spectroscopic
Utility with
Camera and
Integral
Field Unit for
Extragalactic
Research. But by cutting some words out you get a 100x more memorable and easier to say name "Lucifer" (which also fits since Lucifer means "Light Bringer")
Because of the controversy and the rumor that the Vatican owned this part (
Again they never did ) they renamed it to: "LUCI" - as in "LUCI in the sky with diamonds"
... Yeah Astronomers are just a buncha nerds who like coming up with short memorable names for equipment that normally has run-on sentences for names.