The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's survey of space and time will 'be remembered 100 years from new,' chief scientist Tony Tyson says. Here's why.
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On a dark mountaintop in Chile, the world's largest digital camera has begun filming its masterpiece. This Tuesday (June 30), scientists with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory announced that the facility's ambitious Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) officially began. Every night for the next 10 years, the observatory's car-size LSST Camera will capture a 3,200-megapixel image of the southern sky — then another, then another, slowly filling in a mosaic of the universe 30 seconds at a time. "In a
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