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10 Million Alerts a Night: How to Ride the Rubin Observatory Firehose

Rubin Observatory will scan the entire visible sky every three nights and fire 10 million alerts per night. Here's how that changes astronomy.

The answer first

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to flood astronomy with more data than ever before. Every clear night, its 3.2-gigapixel camera scans the sky, identifying everything that moves, brightens, or shifts.

The StarPixels perceptual flip

Rubin Observatory will scan the entire visible sky every three nights and fire 10 million alerts per night. Here's how that changes astronomy.

What most explanations leave out

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Evidence and named signals

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    What remains uncertain

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    Why it matters—or what you can observe

    Rubin Observatory will scan the entire visible sky every three nights and fire 10 million alerts per night. Here's how that changes astronomy.

    Further reading and primary sources

      Gear relevance

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