Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins 10-Year Sky Survey
The telescope will take hundreds of images per night to map billions of stars and galaxies and search for clues about dark matter and dark energy.
- On Tuesday, June 30, 2026, the Rubin Observatory officially began its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time , capturing a comprehensive timelapse of the universe from a Chilean mountaintop.
- Funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy, Rubin utilizes the world's largest digital camera to map billions of stars and galaxies across the Southern Hemisphere.
- Acquiring about 10 terabytes of data per night, Rubin captures both wide fields and faint objects, including a 1.7-gigapixel image of stars in Lupus and Centaurus constellations.
- Researchers hope the survey will yield clues about dark matter and dark energy; Darío Gil of the U.S. Department of Energy said, "Rubin Observatory will capture the dynamic nature of our cosmos."
- Every night for the next decade, Rubin will scan the sky, sending alerts for supernovae or asteroids to create the most comprehensive, cinematic record of the universe in history.
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The largest digital camera ever made has begun capturing parts of the universe that human eyes have never seen before.
It's Finally Begun! The Vera Rubin Observatory Creating What Will Be the Greatest Movie Ever Made
The Vera Rubin Observatory's long-awaited Legacy Survey of Space and Time has begun. This decade-long movie of the cosmos will capture anything that changes brightness, position, or both in the southern night sky. It will study grand subjects like dark energy and dark matter, and important things closer to home like near-Earth objects.
The largest digital camera ever begins decade-long journey to capture unseen corners of the universe
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its cosmic survey, meant to capture swathes of the sky in more depth and detail. Perched on a Chilean mountaintop, the telescope will point its eye at the southern sky for the next 10 years, taking hundreds of images per night.
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