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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory under construction in Chile. Its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey , the Legacy Survey of Space and Time .
Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is named in her honor. [ 4 ] Beginning her academic career as the sole undergraduate in astronomy at Vassar College , Rubin went on to graduate studies at Cornell University and Georgetown University , where she observed deviations from Hubble flow in galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of ...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory to be located in Cerro Pachón Observatory (El Peñón). Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (planned but not yet initiated). Potential sites in Chile were located in the Antofagasta region. Further information on the Extremely large telescope.
Erin Howard poses on the summit of Chile's Cerro Pachón with the Vera C. Rubin observatory. Howard, a Bremerton native and Olympic College graduate, is part of the team erecting what will be the ...
Later this year the largest digital camera ever built will begin working at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, able to capture the night sky in incredible detail.
The Gemini Observatory, which operated Gemini North in Hawaii and Gemini South in Chile; The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which was constructing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile; On October 1, 2019, these three organizations merged their operations to form NOIRLab. [4]
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, former name of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory astronomical observatory in Chile Legacy Survey of Space and Time, an astronomical survey performed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory; Lowstand systems tract, a type of sedimentary deposit in sequence stratigraphy