Another huge step this week for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Workers installed the car-sized LSST camera onto the Simonyi Survey Telescope, completing the last major step of its construction. This is the largest camera ever built, weighing over 3,000 kilograms and able to capture 3,200 megapixels. This is now matched up with the 8.4-meter primary/tertiary mirror of Rubin, which will allow it to capture everything that happens in the southern sky, night after night.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history

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