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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Set to Map Billions of Stars

10/25/2025

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile's Andes mountains will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map the positions and motions of billions of celestial objects.
It features an 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope.
It is paired with a 3.2-gigapixel LSST Camera, the largest digital camera.
The survey aims to detect up to 10 million transient changes in the sky each night, including asteroids and supernovas.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile's Andes mountains will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map the positions and motions of billions of celestial objects.
It features an 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope.
It is paired with a 3.2-gigapixel LSST Camera, the largest digital camera.
The survey aims to detect up to 10 million transient changes in the sky each night, including asteroids and supernovas.