NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Decade-Long Legacy Survey of Space and Time

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Published: 2026-08-12
Category: science
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has commenced its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a monumental 10-year endeavor to map the universe with unprecedented detail. This initiative, utilizing the world's largest digital camera, is expected to generate an extraordinary public dataset, enabling new scientific discoveries, potentially even by future generations of researchers.

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