Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During a traditional Chilean stone-laying ceremony, the first ...

The SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory has announced the completion of the LSST Camera, which is capable of capturing 3,200-megapixel images, and will now be ...

Construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile is about halfway between first brick and first light. Its 3-ton camera, built with National Science Foundation support, will be the ...

The Large Synoptic Sky Survey will collect so much data that data scientists needed to figure out new ways for astronomers to access it. The most detailed three-dimensional maps of the universe so far ...

With a 3,200-megapixel LSST camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create the "greatest movie of all time and the most informative map of the night sky ever assembled." When you purchase through ...

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the world’s largest sky survey, will rain a monsoon of data onto the astrophysics community. Simulations prepare scientists for the approaching storm. Almost a ...

Scientists are currently building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will conduct the most ambitious all-sky survey of the universe to date, and Rochester Institute of Technology is ...

The 3.2-billion-pixel LSST Camera will collect 15 terabytes of data on the southern sky each night. Reading time 4 minutes Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera ...

In Chile, in France and all across the US, the various elements of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) observatory, mankind’s biggest ever astronomy venture, are now rolling smoothly toward ...

Building the world's largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera, is no simple task—that much is obvious. The camera features ...

The first stone of the future LSST telescope was laid on 14 April 2015 by the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, at the Cerro Pachón site in the Chilean Andes. The LSST will be equipped with the ...