October’s Science Topic – Millions of New Asteroids: The Legacy Survey of Space and Time
11 Oct 2025 18:00 – 20:00 NEW TIME!
Speaker: Jake Kurlander, 4th-year University of Washington PhD student
The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, starting in late 2025, will begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—the most expansive sky survey ever conducted. Using a 3,200-megapixel camera built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, it will capture an 8GB image every 40 seconds, revisiting the same sky regions every three nights. This decade-long project aims to uncover rare cosmic events by collecting vast amounts of astrophysical data. The observatory is jointly funded and operated by the NSF and DOE.