After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern sky. New Scientist got a behind-the-scenes look at the telescope during the first few weeks of its operation. Watch more: https://www.newscientist.com/video/2485807-look-inside-the-revolutionary-vera-c-rubin-observatory/ | New Scientist

This 3.2 gigapixel digital camera is going to be installed in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to get incredibly detailed images of the night sky. | Gizmodo

💫 Built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built. The camera is at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (#LSST), which will capture the entire southern sky every 3 nights. Data from the camera will help address some of the most pressing questions in cosmology, such as the nature of dark energy and dark matter, as well as advancing the study of our solar system and the changing night sky

After almost two decades, this camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s telescope is nearly ready. When it’s fully operational, the telescope will begin collecting 20 terabytes of data every night for ten years. | Interesting Engineering