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Jamie Carter

Vera C. Rubin Observatory: The groundbreaking mission to make a 10-year, time-lapse movie of the universe

A 360-degree panorama as a photosphere from Chile's Cerro Pachón mountain, showing the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope and the Rubin Observatory.

Astronomers are about to begin making a time lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever constructed.

Designed to reveal any new or moving point of light as well as the structure of the universe, the new $473 million Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take so many images, so fast, that it will effectively produce an astronomical movie that allows scientists to see the universe in real time. While still not yet fully operational, the Observatory's first batch of sneak peek images has already left scientists staggered.

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