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World's largest camera at Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins 10-year cosmic time-lapse

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with the world's largest 3,200-megapixel camera, has commenced its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time project. This ambitious initiative aims to capture a time-lapse view of the southern sky, generating two million images and 30 trillion measurements of celestial objects. The observatory is expected to revolutionize astronomy by revealing faint, fast, or rare phenomena and providing unprecedented data on dark matter, dark energy, and the evolution of galaxies, while also serving as a powerful tool for mapping the solar system and identifying asteroids. AI

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World's largest camera at Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins 10-year cosmic time-lapse

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  1. Forbes — Innovation TIER_1 English(EN) · Jamie Carter, Senior Contributor ·

    Humanity’s Biggest Ever Camera Begins 10-Year Time-Lapse Of The Cosmos

    The Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year sky survey, using the world’s largest digital camera to find asteroids, supernovae and anything else that moves.

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