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NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has issued its first scientific alerts, marking a historic milestone in astrophysics. Expected to increase to 7 million alerts per night, these first alerts start a new era of dynamic, real-time observation of the night sky.
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
The SLAC-built LSST Camera is the heart of Rubin Observatory located in the Chilean Andes. During the first 10 years of operation, Rubin Observatory will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), creating the widest, fastest, and deepest views of the night sky ever observed. It will provide a treasure trove of data, hosted at the U.S. Data Facility at SLAC, that will be available to the scientific community to collectively make discoveries and resolve cosmic mysteries. The Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), also hosted at SLAC with members worldwide, will make high-accuracy measurements of fundamental cosmological parameters using data from the LSST.
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