Vera Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Alert System, Detecting 800,000 Cosmic Events in a Single Night
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has activated its real-time astronomical alert pipeline, flagging 800,000 transient objects on its first operational night and setting the stage for a decade-long survey expected to catalog more objects than every previous optical telescope combined.
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