The Rubin Observatory’s key goal is the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a sweeping, near-constant observation of space. This endeavor will yield 60 petabytes of data on the ...

The 3,200-megapixel LSST camera for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is completed. The car-sized camera will create "the greatest movie of all time" to crack the mystery of dark energy.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera is the size of a small car—and the biggest digital camera ever built for astronomy. By Andrew Paul Published Apr 3, 2024 9:00 AM EDT Get the ...

The LSST Camera, about the size of a small automobile, has a 3,200-megapixel focal plane that’s so detailed that showing one image at full resolution would take 400 4K TV screens.

The LSST Camera is the final major component of Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope to arrive at the summit, and after several months of testing in the observatory’s white room, the camera ...

Experts from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory said the sensors will be used in a high-tech space-gazing camera that will explore "cosmic mysteries" at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Standing at 1.65 metres tall, the world’s largest digital camera has been unveiled at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California. The LSST Camera works like any other digital camera, but ...

Staggeringly, the ten million galaxies in the above image are just 0.05% of the number of around 20 billion galaxies that Rubin will have imaged by the end of the LSST.In fact, in a decade, Rubin ...

The LSST, set to come online in the next year or so, should detect many more interstellar objects and be able to identify dark comets in our own solar system.

The Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera is about the size of a small car. (Credit: Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA / F. Munoz) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun ...