The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured its first images on June 23, 2025, and has now entered full survey operations ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids in roughly six weeks of operation, a rate that ...
Tucson, AZ – The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project is pleased to announce receipt of two major gifts: $20M from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and $10M from Microsoft ...
A view of the LSST camera in its clean room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. A revolutionary telescope will come ...
The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile. The 3200-megapixel LSST ...
Mirror will be part of National Science Foundation’s Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Will enable scientists to take more than 800 panoramic images of the sky each night Telescope will identify ...
JWST got its own thread, so it's only fair... The Vera C. Rubin Observatory/LSST, an 8.4m telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile, will see first light in under two years, with first light of ComCam (the ...
The 3.2-billion-pixel LSST Camera will collect 15 terabytes of data on the southern sky each night. Reading time 4 minutes Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera ...