St Germain en Laye, February 3rd 2025.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new telescope in Chile, is ready for the task of with mapping the entire night sky in unprecedented detail, thanks to its car-size 3,200-megapixel digital camera—the largest ever built—to produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days. Over a 10-year survey, Vera Rubin will produce about 60 PB of raw data (to get an idea of the order of magnitude, approximately 10 petabytes of storage would be required to accommodate every feature-length film ever made in 4K resolution, and watching them all would take over a century) — studying everything from asteroids in our solar system, to galaxies in the distant universe. No human being could ever hope to analyze all that data — and that’s from just one of the next-generation observatories being built, so the race is on among astronomers in every field to find new ways to leverage the power of AI.
Read more about Vera C. Rubin Telescope: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will transform our understanding of the cosmos | MIT Technology Review
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