Users are excited about the Rubin Observatory's 10-year southern sky survey because they anticipate major breakthroughs from its data and call it a game changer.
Key numbers that describe the Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs system and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): https://rubinobservatory.org/for-scientists/rubin-101/key-numbers
The 3.2-gigapixel camera specs: https://lsstcam.lsst.io/index.html
@KirkDBorne @VRubinObs imagine the breakthroughs from that data. game changer.
@KirkDBorne @VRubinObs the scale is wild. 7 million alerts per night means the bottleneck shifts from collection to figuring out what to actually look at