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World's biggest camera will reveal its first-ever photos next week
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The world's biggest camera, capable of delivering 3200 megapixel image of the night sky, is about to show us its first-ever images. The camera, which is housed at the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile, is said to be able to see a golf ball from 15 miles away. On June 23 the first images from its ultra-definition sensor will be made public for the first time. This moment has been a long time coming. We started reporting on this monster camera back in 2019, when the giant lens for the camera, which measures 5 metres across, was being assembled at SLAC, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in California. The camera will capture 1000 images a night over the next 10 years, with the project's mission being to catalog 20 billion galaxies. The First Look event at the observatory next week will unveil "of a set of large, ultra-high-definition images and videos that showcase Rubin's extraordinary capabilities to the world for the first time", we are told. "This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics". The event will be shown live on the Vera C Rubin Observatory's YouTube channel and on its website from 11am (Eastern Daylight Time) on Monday, June 23, 2025. Hundreds of venues around the world will also be hosting watch parties that include a public viewing of the live stream. Check out the Rubin First Look Watch Party website to find a location near you.
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A Game-Changing Telescope Is About to Drop First Pics. Here's How to Watch.
After more than 20 years in the making, we're finally about to see the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, an astronomical facility with the largest digital camera ever built by humans. On 23 June 2025, at 15:00 UTC (11:00 EDT), the US National Science Foundation and Department of Energy will reveal the telescope's first observations, kicking off a whole new era in studying the skies. Perhaps the best part is, live watch parties will be taking place all over the world, and the entire event will be livestreamed on YouTube – you can tune in below. Rubin was first proposed in 2001, and is expected to do great things. The observatory telescope will perform a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in near-ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared wavelengths, capturing the entire sky every few days to basically compile a huge timelapse of the Universe. Each section of the sky will be recorded around 800 times using the telescope's 3,200-megapixel camera. Every 24 hours, Rubin will generate about 20 terabytes of data. During the LSST, it's expected to collect some 60 petabytes of raw image data, around double the data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array during the same time frame. This incredible capacity requires cutting-edge data transfer, processing, and storage facilities in and of itself. Safe to say that astronomers are super hyped. We anticipate that Rubin is going to show us things about the Universe and answer questions that we haven't even begun to imagine. "Rubin's combination of speed, wide field of view, and sensitive camera expands the limits of what a telescope can do," the NSF and DOE assert. "No other telescope has been able to detect both real-time changes in the sky and faint or distant objects at the same time on this enormous scale. These capabilities mean that exceedingly rare events in the sky, never detected before, will be captured for the first time." You can tune into the event next week at the YouTube embed above, or check the Watch Party website to find an event near you. Trailblazing Satellite Mission Delivers Its First Artificial Solar Eclipse NASA Teams Up With India to Launch First-of-Its-Kind $1.5 Billion Satellite Volcano Found Hiding 'In Plain Sight' Right Next to NASA Mars Rover
