Tuesday, June 30, 2026

It's Finally Begun! The Vera Rubin Observatory Creating What Will Be the Greatest Movie Ever Made

This is a 1.7 gigapixel image of stars in the constellation Lupus from the VRO and its LSST Camera. This is the largest digital camera in the world, and with it, the VRO can capture wide images of the sky in extreme detail. The VRO's long-awaited 10-year survey of the sky has now begun. Image Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA

The Vera Rubin Observatory's long-awaited Legacy Survey of Space and Time has begun. This decade-long movie of the cosmos will capture anything that changes brightness, position, or both in the southern night sky. It will study grand subjects like dark energy and dark matter, and important things closer to home like near-Earth objects.



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