A 10-Year Sky Survey Begins Filming A 'Cosmic Movie,' Cyborg Cockroaches Go For A Dive And More Science Stories
This week’s science news.
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
This week marked the beginning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a massive effort to observe the sky that comes more than two decades in the making. It could help us to better understand our own solar system and the mysteries of the cosmos, from dark energy and dark matter to the expansion of the universe. Read on to learn more about that, plus other science news that grabbed our attention this week.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets to work
The Vera C. Rubin Observatoryin Chile, which contains the largest digital camera in the world at 3,200 megapixels, has begun its 10-year survey of the universe. Its campaign kicked off on June 30, and for the next decade it will capture a new image roughly every 40 seconds, observing the entire southern sky...
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