Shining light on scientific superstar Vera Rubin — Harvard . . . The telescope will repeatedly sweep the sky in a 10-year survey It will produce 20 terabytes of data every night and in one year will generate more optical astronomy data than all previous telescopes combined Vera Rubin measuring spectra in 1974 Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science
How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of . . . Rubin, located in Chile and financed by the U S Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, will inundate astronomers with data Each image taken by Rubin’s camera consists of 3 2 billion pixels that may contain previously undiscovered asteroids, dwarf planets, supernovas and galaxies And each pixel records one of 65,536
Revolutionary Rubin Observatory debuts with first images . . . On June 23, the first images from the much-anticipated Vera C Rubin Observatory atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón will be shown to the world in grand fashion, coinciding with a celebration in Washington, D C , hundreds of watch parties hosted across the globe, and a swell of pride felt by many at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose researchers have played key roles in the observatory
This giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize . . . Unlike most telescopes, which zoom in on particular objects, Rubin will march relentlessly across the firmament, capturing swaths in a field of view that covers the equivalent of 45 full Moons At each stop its 3-ton, car-size camera will record the view with an array of 189 light sensors cooled to –100°C, producing an image so rich it would
Blockbuster New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change . . . View of Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024 The 8 4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory, equipped with the LSST camera, the largest digital camera in the world, will take
The Telescope That Will Redefine Our Universe Is Almost Ready The Vera C Rubin Observatory: A Technological Marvel in the Mountains of Chile Perched atop Cerro Pachón, a 2,647-meter peak in Chile’s Atacama Desert—one of the driest and clearest-sky regions on Earth—the Vera C Rubin Observatory is the culmination of years of international collaboration, engineering genius, and bold scientific