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The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.
You can see the extent of The Cosmic Treasure Chest in the video above, or you can use the special viewfinder to explore the image yourself, to hunt for a never-before-seen galaxy. You can even ...
Just one image from the LSSTCam covers an area equivalent to the size of 45 full moons in the sky.” That one statistic, from ...
The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.
The most abundant atom in the universe – the major component in the clouds of dust and gas in which stars form – is hydrogen.
A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to science community across the world.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory was conceived nearly 30 years ago, and now we are finally seeing the first images captured by ...
In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...
While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in ...
The team behind the long-awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published their first images this week, revealing ...
The observatory is located high in the Chilean mountains, an area optimal for astronomical observation thanks to its dry air and dark skies. But the operation’s crown jewel is its camera, which was ...
The world's largest digital camera has begun operation by snapping photos that equate to images with a resolution of 61,440 x ...