The Vera Rubin Telescope

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New big ground based telescope in Chile, different in several ways, needs its own thread.

Turns its gaze quicker than normal ground based telescopes do, covers the whole sky (eta: from Chile POV) about every 4 days. Has pretty good resolution too, due to it’s large primary aperature and the use of it’s world’s-biggest-yet convex secondary mirror.

Early results include heaps of new asteroids, ~8 of which should make near passes by Earth.


Am wondering if this Victor Romeo gizmo is panning for ET foxes. You know what I mean.


Millions of New Asteroids - How The Vera Rubin Telescope Changes Everything

Scott Manley

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Jun 25, 2025

“The New Vera C Rubin Obsservatory in Chile is a fast telescope designed to survey the night sky at great depth and revisiting the same locations every few days. That means it's designed to collect data about the sky over space and TIME, this massive data set will grow 30 terabytes per day, and instead of requesting telescope time for scientific studies scientists will just be able to grab the data they need and apply computer power to analyze their problem.
It's an absolutely revolutionary design in terms of its optics, camera, structure and processing power, and it will change our understanding of the universe.“



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The First Photos from the BIGGEST Camera Ever Made!

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Look Inside the Revolutionary Vera Rubin Observatory

5 minute in-person tour from New Scientist.

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After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern sky. This enormous telescope has already produced stunning new images of the heavens and discovered thousands of new asteroids. New Scientist got a behind-the-scenes look at the telescope during the first few weeks of its operation.

High on a mountaintop in Chile, the telescope has just begun making observations that will revolutionise our understanding of the solar system and the large-scale structure of the universe, as well as helping to solve some of the greatest cosmic mysteries. Its work pinning down where the galaxies sit inside the cosmic web – an interconnected network of matter-rich filaments and voids that spans the universe – will give researchers a better idea of how invisible dark matter and dark energy influence the matter that we can see.

The Rubin Observatory hosts a 350-ton reflecting telescope that holds world records for the largest digital camera and the largest lens. Come inside the dome with us, get a view of the mirror assembly hall where the telescope’s mirror lens was cleaned and put together, and visit the control room as the operators spend one of the first of thousands of nights getting this telescope “on sky” – observatory lingo for opening up the telescope’s shutter and taking images.

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FIRST IMAGES From Band New Vera C Rubin Observatory:

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The Vera Rubin Observatory will scan the entire night sky every single night for 10 years. That mission is ready to begin, and we've just seen the very first images from this brand new, enormous, and unique telescope. Let's dive into what they show us, how the telescope works, and what its ultimate mission will be.

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This New Telescope Could Save Humanity:

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quote: "I just visited the most advanced telescope on Earth - The Vera C. Rubin Observatory cost over $1,000,000,000, took 20 years to build and contains the largest camera ever made!"

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Captured This Cotton Candy Nebula

Trifid, Hourglass, and Lagoon nebulae


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https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/vera-c-rubin-observatory-captured-this-cotton-candy-nebula-heres-what-it

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This $1 Billion Vera Rubin Observatory Just Rewrote Astronomy!

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00:00 Why 3.2 Billion Pixels Matter
01:12 Meet the Vera Rubin Observatory
03:05 Inside the LSST Camera (World’s Biggest!)
05:28 20 TB per Night—Data Tsunami Explained
07:45 Dark Matter, Dark Energy & Cosmic Acceleration
09:52 Planetary Defense: Spotting potentially harmful Asteroids
11:20 Citizen Science: How YOU Can Mine the Data
12:50 Final Thoughts + How to Download Rubin Images
13:25 Outro & Star Chart Giveaway

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Shocking First Images from the Vera Rubin Telescope Stun Astronomers:

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Rubin’s not just a telescope. It’s a system. A global experiment that doesn’t end with one discovery. Its value increases over time, as more frames are added, more movement is detected, more change is captured.

You’ll be able to rewind the sky. Watch stars drift. See galaxies flicker. Track how clusters shift over years. It’ll be the first true time-lapse of the universe, and it won’t just be a pretty animation. It’ll be real data. Logged. Archived. Searchable.

And that opens up possibilities we haven’t even thought of yet.


0:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcXGvs9Rxg) Vera Rubin 1:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcXGvs9Rxg&t=60s) A Telescope That Watches the Sky Like a Security Camera 6:56 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcXGvs9Rxg&t=416s) First Light—and What Comes After It 9:24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcXGvs9Rxg&t=564s) The Killer Asteroid Problem 13:02 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcXGvs9Rxg&t=782s) Vera Rubin’s Legacy and the Dark Matter Puzzle 18:16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcXGvs9Rxg&t=1096s) What Rubin Will Change Forever