How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery The final data release at the end of the 10-year survey, she said, could reach 500 million billion bytes Kenneth Chang, a science reporter at The Times, covers NASA and the solar system, and research closer to Earth Irena Hwang is a data reporter at The Times, using computational tools to uncover hidden stories and illuminate the news
Shining light on scientific superstar Vera Rubin — Harvard Gazette 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
This giant, all-seeing telescope is set to . . . - Science | AAAS In 2001, the decadal survey rated the proposal highly and, realizing the telescope could address much more than dark matter, renamed it the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Nearly 2 decades later, as the telescope began to take shape on Cerro Pachón, it was renamed again after Vera C Rubin, the astronomer who discovered dark matter by charting its effects on galaxy rotation, and who died in
Opening a new window into the universe | UDaily - University of Delaware It’s a big deal — and not just because it will use an enormous telescope and the world’s largest digital camera The 8-meter-wide telescope at the Rubin Observatory — with its car-sized camera and finely tuned computer infrastructure — will operate something like a farmer’s harvesting combine