The team refers to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as a 10-year-long movie of the universe, and they're right. The ...

Princeton researchers have played a major role in developing software pipelines to process the massive amounts of data the ...

Aerial view of the Cerro Tololo Observatory, located in the Tololo hill near La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile, taken on January 24, 2024. Surrounded by desert-like mountains and under the blue skies ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will create the most comprehensive record of the universe to date.

Lights, a 3200MP camera and Action! The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun mapping the cosmos with the biggest ...

The observatory's camera will take thousands of images each night, completing a full scan of the southern sky every few days. Over its decade-long survey, it will revisit the same spot in the night ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun an 10-year survey to create a new inventory of our solar system and the Milky Way, and chip away at the mystery of dark matter.

After a year of testing, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started capturing data as part of the much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

The world’s largest camera, built in Menlo Park and stationed on a mountaintop in Chile, on Tuesday began capturing images for a 10-year effort to turn the night sky into what scientists call “the ...

Giant telescope begins filming the universe every 40 seconds, creating the most detailed cosmic record ever attempted from Earth ...