First Look at the Cosmos with NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

This First Look event will be live streamed via Youtube in English, with Q&A available in both English and Spanish. Join us to celebrate the start of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with the world's newest and most powerful survey telescope.

Over the next ten years, Rubin Observatory will create the ultimate movie of the night sky using the largest camera ever built — repeatedly scanning the sky to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, will perform the Legacy Survey of Space and Time using the LSST Camera and the Simonyi Survey Telescope. Rubin Observatory is a joint Program of NSF NOIRLab and DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Rubin Observatory’s mission is to produce an unprecedented astronomical dataset for studies of the deep and dynamic Universe, make the data widely accessible to a diverse community of scientists, and engage the public to explore the Universe with us.

This event will be hosted by WashU Physics Visiting Research Scholar, Andrés A. Plazas Malagón.

Photos provided by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Credit for header image: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Credit for thumbnail image: Bruno C. Quint