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Vera C Rubin Observatory finds record-breaking asteroid within first 7 nights

In the fastest observation made, the LSST Camera data identified an asteroid the size of eight football fields that rotated ...
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Rubin Observatory Data Flood Will Let the Universe Alert Astronomers 10 Million Times a Night

Bang! Whiz! Pop! The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to ...
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In Its First Year, Rubin Observatory Will Gather More Space Data Than All Other Telescopes In History Combined

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...
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NSF, DOE’s Rubin Observatory will create a massive data trove. A cloud-based platform and nightly alerts will deliver it to researchers.

This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes ...
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Rubin Observatory and Google will store astronomy data in the cloud

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has announced a three-year agreement with Google to host data from astronomy observations in the cloud. Rubin and Google said that the collaboration, made ...