Rubin Observatory Releases First Survey Discoveries

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun releasing its first discoveries as it starts the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a ten-year survey that will repeatedly image the southern sky. Early outputs include supernovae, variable stars and asteroids detected by its three-tonne, eight-meter-class telescope and the world’s largest camera capable of imaging light up to 12 billion years old. The data will enable studies of solar-system objects, transient phenomena and cosmic structure using machine-learning analyses.