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The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy . The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory .
Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction on Cerro Pachón in Chile, is an 8-meter-class telescope coupled to a 3200 megapixels camera – the world’s largest digital camera ever fabricated for optical astronomy. Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in Chile, will conduct an unprecedented, decade-long survey ...
Apr 26, 2021 · The observatory is a federal project run by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy. The new observatory — named in honor of astronomer Vera Rubin — is ...
Built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. The camera is at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will capture the entire southern sky every 3 nights.
About Rubin Observatory. With an 8.4-meter mirror and the largest camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics, Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture the cosmos in exquisite detail and help answer some of our biggest questions about the Universe. More about Rubin Observatory Who was Vera C. Rubin?
Dr. Vera C. Rubin was an American astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe. Prior to her work, dark matter was a concept that had been introduced but not taken seriously. But when Vera Rubin and her colleague Kent Ford studied more than 60 galaxies and found that the stars at ...
Among the objects Rubin Observatory will detect are near-Earth objects (NEOs), with its superior imaging enabling it to find asteroids as small as 140 meters in diameter and as far away as the Main Belt asteroids. Depending on the chosen survey strategy, Rubin Observatory could detect between 60-90% of all potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs ...
