On June 23, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University will host a viewing party for the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, which, with 3 billion pixels, is the largest astronomical camera ever built.
Combined, Jeffrey Newman, Michael Wood-Vasey, Brett Andrews, Mi Dai and Tianqing Zhang — all faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences — have been working on the LSST project for more than four decades.
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