How America's New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Maps the Universe Each Night

Can the Rubin Observatory spot incoming asteroids?

A faster, wider eye on near‑Earth space The new wide field survey telescope has begun operations with a fast, deep imaging program that repeatedly scans large swaths of the sky. Its design—high sensitivity, wide coverage, and rapid revisit cadence—means the facility can discover and track small,…

How America's New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Maps the Universe Each Night

How America's New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Maps the Universe Each NightEach night, Rubin produces 10 terabytes of data to map and survey the universe and generates millions of alerts about changing objects to help scientists zoom in with other telescopes, including the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes or ground-based instruments.The United States Department of Energy-National Science Foundation Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to change…

Alertas del Observatorio Rubin activan las primeras observaciones de seguimiento de NOIRLab

NOIRLab de NSF, financiado por la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos, ha completado con éxito las pruebas de funcionamiento integral de su ecosistema de seguimiento de alertas del Observatorio Vera C. Rubin de NSF-DOE. Las pruebas demostraron cómo una combinación de las herramientas de software desarrolladas por NOIRLab y una red global de telescopios permitirá realizar observaciones de seguimiento rápidas de los innumerables objeto

First NSF NOIRLab Follow-Up Observations Triggered by NSF–DOE Rubin Alerts - Multiple NOIRLab tools and facilities come together to demonstrate end-to-end use of its real-time follow-up ecosystem

NSF NOIRLab, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, has completed end-to-end runs of its ecosystem for following up on alerts from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The runs demonstrated how multiple NOIRLab-developed software tools, plus a network of telescopes around the globe, will enable quick follow-up observations of the countless transient objects that Rubin will uncover during its ten-year survey.