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 . . . The Rubin Observatory First Look event will cap a massive $810 million effort over the past decade that has involved hundreds of scientists, engineers, and support staff to build a first-of-its-kind observatory, whose mission is to produce an unprecedented astronomical dataset for studies of the deep and dynamic universe, to make the data
Opening a new window into the universe | UDaily 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
Shining light on scientific superstar Vera Rubin — Harvard . . . 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 NOIRLab NSF AURA “For solar system science, it’s a huge advance,” said Matt Holman, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Images June 23: Why It’s Huge Get ready for a cosmic reveal! On June 23, the astronomical world is poised for a major milestone: the release of the first public images from the Vera C Rubin Observatory This highly anticipated event is being compared to the initial stunning views shared by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, signaling the dawn