Welcome to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A couple of decades in the making, the world's newest and fastest astronomical facility is now online and gearing up to carry out its primary mission, the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Join Rubin's Deputy Director of Operations, Phil Marshall, for a virtual tour of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Summit Facility in Chile, and hear more about Rubin and its mission.

The LSST will be an unprecedented astronomical data set for studies of the deep and dynamic universe, and is designed to be for everyone: Rubin will make the data widely accessible to a diverse community of scientists, and use it to enable the public to explore the Universe to greater depth and in more detail than ever before. In fact, the LSST Camera, built at SLAC and now mounted on Rubin's Simonyi Survey Telescope, presents everyone with a Big Data problem: how to cope with more astronomical data than has been taken by all previous telescopes combined, being accumulated and presented at unprecedented speed? Part of the answer to this question is "AI" - but what will that mean, in practice? Come and think big in the Morrison Planetarium.

Speaker: Phil Marshall, Stanford University/SLAC