Coming online in 2025, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's enormous, unrelenting eye on the sky will create the biggest, most data-rich movie ever made — a 10-year, high-precision chronicle of trillions of cosmic events and objects across the vastness of space and time.

"We're making a digital color motion picture of the universe," says Rubin Observatory Chief Scientist and UCD Professor of Physics and Astronomy Tony Tyson. "It will contain information that we can get in no other way."

Read more at the NSF.gov article here:
https://new.nsf.gov/science-matters/nsf-doe-rubin-observatory-will-capture-unseen

Published: August 16, 2024, 3:43 pm