How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery 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 Gazette The celebration will kick off Monday with a livestream of the first images from the Vera C Rubin Observatory, a new astronomy and astrophysics facility in Cerro Pachón, 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
First images of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory On Monday, 23 June 2025, at 5 p m CEST, the Vera C Rubin Observatory will publish its first telescope images This ‘first look’ is a milestone on the road to scientific operation Impressive images are expected that will demonstrate the capabilities of the observatory and its 3,200-megapixel
A Game-Changing Telescope Is About to Drop First Pics. Heres How to . . . Rubin was first proposed in 2001, and is expected to do great things The observatory telescope will perform a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in near-ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared wavelengths, capturing the entire sky every few days to basically compile a huge timelapse of the
Rubin Observatory throws a party to reveal first pictures After more than 20 years of planning and construction, the Vera C Rubin Observatory is ready for its grand opening, and the world is invited The observatory in the foothills of the Chilean Andes features a monster of a telescope, with an 8 4-meter-wide (28-foot-wide) mirror, coupled with what’s said to be the world’s largest digital camera It will survey the night sky every night for
The First Images from Vera Rubin are About to Drop On June 23 at 15:00 UTC, operators are going to release the first images from the telescope live to the internet, and you'll be able to watch The Vera C Rubin is a game changing observatory that