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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins 10-Year Sky Survey
The telescope will take hundreds of images per night to map billions of stars and galaxies and search for clues about dark matter and dark energy.
- On Tuesday, June 30, 2026, the Rubin Observatory officially began its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time , capturing a comprehensive timelapse of the universe from a Chilean mountaintop.
- Funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy, Rubin utilizes the world's largest digital camera to map billions of stars and galaxies across the Southern Hemisphere.
- Acquiring about 10 terabytes of data per night, Rubin captures both wide fields and faint objects, including a 1.7-gigapixel image of stars in Lupus and Centaurus constellations.
- Researchers hope the survey will yield clues about dark matter and dark energy; Darío Gil of the U.S. Department of Energy said, "Rubin Observatory will capture the dynamic nature of our cosmos."
- Every night for the next decade, Rubin will scan the sky, sending alerts for supernovae or asteroids to create the most comprehensive, cinematic record of the universe in history.
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