The University of Toledo’s Ritter Planetarium will host astronomers and enthusiasts for the release of the first images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Monday, June 23.
The free, public event featuring a livestream from the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. will begin at 10:30 a.m. The first images are scheduled to be revealed at 11:20 a.m.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, situated atop a mountain in Chile, is a first-of-its kind telescope funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It’s designed to repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years with the largest camera ever built, creating an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our universe called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
The Rubin Observatory’s enormous dataset is expected to yield a treasure trove of discoveries and unlock countless mysteries related to our universe.
The Ritter Planetarium event is one of many Rubin First Look Watch Parties scheduled to take place at planetariums, museums, libraries, universities and other organizations around the world on Monday.
It will be followed by a free screening of “Messengers of Time and Space.”
