Cambridge astronomers play leading role as world’s most ambitious sky survey begins

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which began capturing data last night from a mountaintop in Chile — a milestone the UK astronomy community has worked toward for more than a decade. Over the next ten years, the…

Source: Cambridge IoA · Original release

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