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What’s up with the Vera Rubin Observatory? Neil breaks down how this telescope is making a movie of the night sky, helping us discover what could be millions of asteroids and more. Can we one day have a dark matter map of large-scale structures in the universe?

Check out Vera Rubin Observatory’s ‘First Light’ Collection: https://rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-gallery

And their Skyviewer to explore the full resolution images: https://skyviewer.app/

Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction: What’s Up with The Vera Rubin Observatory?
00:42 – Science’s Ten-Year Plan
02:48 – Movie of the Night Sky
4:48 – Largest Digital Camera Ever
7:20 – Discovering thousands of asteroids
9:12 – Mapping Dark Matter

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