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
Rubin Technology | Rubin Observatory At the end of its 10-year survey, Rubin will have produced 60 petabytes of raw image data This is the first time this much astronomical data will be available to so many people! Explore the technological innovations making Rubin science possible
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
This giant, all-seeing telescope is set to . . . - Science The camera at its heart is fast, too, capable of spitting out a 3200-megapixel image from each exposure in less than 3 seconds On a typically clear, bone-dry day here at 2650 meters, the Vera C Rubin Observatory is limbering up inside its sleek enclosure, which looks more like a Bond villain’s lair than a science facility
The first images from Vera Rubin telescope are about to drop The telescope features an 8 4-meter primary mirror with a three-mirror design that provides an exceptionally wide 3 5-degree field of view, seven times the area of the full moon At its core is
The Telescope That Will Redefine Our Universe Is Almost Ready Now, in the high desert of Chile, humanity is preparing for another such awakening On 23 June 2025 at 15:00 UTC, the Vera C Rubin Observatory will unveil its first images in a highly anticipated “First Look” event Streaming live on YouTube for the world to see, this moment marks the beginning of what could be the most ambitious sky