How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of . . . Beyond the alerts, the Rubin software will combine images for more detailed analysis For each image, the telescope uses one of six filters, which range from ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths The filter changes the view, much like a pair of sunglasses Three images taken through different filters can be combined into a color picture
Shining light on scientific superstar Vera Rubin — Harvard . . . More than two decades ago, Stubbs was among a group of scientists who won a federal grant to begin planning the new telescope That proposal eventually grew into the $800 million observatory that will begin service this month after many twists and turns and collaborations with other institutions Stubbs said the new images will be spectacular
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
Data - Rubin Observatory Because Rubin Observatory generates so much data—trillions of lines of numbers and observations—a scientist can't download the entire data set to a single computer and analyze it (which is the way scientists have historically worked with digital telescope data) Instead, Rubin Observatory data are housed at data centers around the world
Blockbuster New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change . . . The 8 4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory, equipped with the LSST camera, the largest digital camera in the world, will take enormous images of the Southern Hemisphere sky