DOE National Laboratory
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Completed LSST Camera construction
On June 23, 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images—and they're staggering. A 3.2-gigapixel camera, the largest ever built for astronomy, captured 10 million galaxies in a single frame. In just 10 hours of test observations, it found 2,104 asteroids nobody knew existed, including seven near-Earth objects. This isn't a telescope taking pretty pictures—it's a time machine that will photograph the entire Southern Hemisphere sky every three nights for a decade.
Updated Jan 7
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