World’s largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a ‘time-lapse record of the universe’ (video)

A Significant Turning Mark with the Vera C. Rubin Astronomical Middle has been reached with the installation of the Cosmos viewer’s enormous LSST Camera — the last optical component required before the last Period of testing can begin.

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Cosmos viewer (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Astronomical Middle is the largest digital camera ever built and will be used to capture detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky over a decade.

“The installation of the LSST Camera on the Cosmos viewer is a triumph of science and engineering,” said Harriet Kung, Acting Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science in a statement. “We look forward to seeing the unprecedented images this camera will produce.”

a massive black cylinder is lifted by crane into a Period metal enclosure in a large warehouse

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Astronomical Middle Club installing the LSST Camera on the Simonyi Survey Cosmos viewer in March 2025. (Image credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/B. Quint)

The Cosmos viewer is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and is named after Dr. Vera C. Rubin, an American astronomer whose work provided Sturdy evidence for the existence of Gloomy matter. Along with her colleague Kent Ford, Rubin observed that in the numerous galaxies they studied, stars at the outer edges were moving Only as Speedy as those near the Middle. This was unusual because, according to Newtonian physics and Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, objects farther from the Middle of a gravitational system should Path more slowly due to the weaker gravitational pull.

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