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We're not afraid of commitment 💍🔭
Yes, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's LSST is a 10-year commitment! But why?
To truly #CaptureTheCosmos, we need to balance both "depth" and "time." Ten years is what we need to achieve both 🌌⏱️
🎥: NSF–DOE RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA
The NSF-DOE @VRubinObs's unique design combines enormous light-collecting power, rapid sky-scanning capability & a wide field of view, allowing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time to study the accelerating expansion of the universe. 🔭🌌 https://t.co/llys45pBoJ
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Sky survey progression 🌌
@VRubinObs has begun its 10 year timelapse to #CaptureTheCosmos! This sequence shows how the quality of ground-based sky surveys has improved over time, from the Digitized Sky Survey II in 1994 to Rubin today.
Stars, camera, action! 🌌 📸 🎬
We're celebrating the official start of @VRubinObs's ultra-high-definition 10-year time-lapse of the universe, which will be the most comprehensive cinematic record to date! #CaptureTheCosmos with us: https://t.co/AcPpRyrxhM
It’s #NationalCameraDay – commemorating the invention of the camera and the art of photography! 📷
SLAC built the world’s largest digital camera, and we can’t wait to see how it will #CaptureTheCosmos with @VRubinObs.
Happy June Solstice! ☀️❄️ The north gets summer, but it's the winter solstice at NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory in Chile & our longest night. More dark hours mean more time to #CaptureTheCosmos!
If you're in the north, enjoy the sun! For us, we'll be embracing the darkness 🔭
Longer nights means more time for the stars 🌟
As we get closer to winter in the southern hemisphere, sunset gets earlier.
But that's good news for ground-based astronomy observatories like NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, because longer nights mean more time to #CaptureTheCosmos!
To #CaptureTheCosmos, there’s bound to be a lot of data.
Up to 10 terabytes every night. For 10 years.
@VRubinObs has three data facilities to make it possible: one in France, one in the U.K., and the U.S. Data Facility here at SLAC!
How will @VRubinObs #CaptureTheCosmos?
Collecting about 10 TeraBytes of raw data every night, over 10 years. That’s more than all previous astronomical surveys combined.
Learn more with the full video data story: https://t.co/9XxDYTGIwi
Happy March equinox! ☀️
At NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory in Chile, this day marks the beginning of autumn. From here on out, daylight hours in the southern hemisphere will shrink until the June solstice, meaning longer nights and more time to #CaptureTheCosmos 🌌
The sky is screaming, and now we can hear it better 🔭
800,000 alerts on night one... seven million per night by year's end. The universe is trying to tell us something.
https://t.co/FZYBACa7IC
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Alerts incoming❗
The first scientific alerts from @VRubinObs have begun and they are all coming to SLAC, home of the U.S. Data Facility.
This milestone helps us #CaptureTheCosmos even before the 10-year survey of the night sky begins: https://t.co/QEGZg8EUow
Even the world’s largest digital camera has heart eyes sometimes… 😍
Our LSST Camera produced some love-ly distortions during the early optical testing of its mirrors. All part of the process to #CaptureTheCosmos for you. Happy Valentine's Day! 📷 🌌 ❤️
Happy New Year!
Our New Year's resolution? To #CaptureTheCosmos💥
2026 will see the start of the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time! Over the next decade, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will build the most complete map & detailed time-lapse movie of the Southern sky ever made🔭
Time after timelapse...
We'll never get enough of the timelapse showing our camera built and installed in the NSF-DOE @VRubinObs – a milestone that brought us one step closer to starting the Legacy Survey of Space and Time that will #CaptureTheCosmos over the next decade.
Once the camera proved it could see the sky? It was almost time to show the world what Rubin could do 🌌 #RubinRecap2025 #CaptureTheCosmos
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🎥: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA
📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/A. Rose
🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory!
Today (and always), we’re grateful for clear skies, operational telescopes, and the scientists, engineers, summit staff, educators, & everyone in between making it possible for Rubin to #CaptureTheCosmos!
Happy #NationalAstronomyDay! 🌌
You can manipulate space, time, and #CaptureTheCosmos with us in the NSF-DOE @VRubinObs Orbitviewer app. Start exploring now: https://t.co/5Gy6zlPZxt
Rubin Observatory has made the list of @Gizmodo's 2025 Science Fair winners!
From building the world's largest digital camera to jointly operating with NSF's NOIRLab, SLAC is helping to #CaptureTheCosmos: https://t.co/Ibk04ygvkk
Gizmodo Science Fair: An Observatory That Captures the Universe Like Never Before https://t.co/TbwYuaM4MU
Bringing a whole new meaning to "remote work" 👩💻
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory sits stop Cerro Pachón in Chile, but we have remote observing locations in Chile and the US! Read about how the control room @SLAClab will help enable Rubin to #CaptureTheCosmos: https://t.co/eiZBAabbQU
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