Rubin Observatory logs 800k sky changes in a single night
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s new alert system detected about 800,000 changes in the night sky in one night, underscoring the massive data flow of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which is expected to generate up to 7 million alerts per night and around 10 terabytes of data nightly as it sweeps the southern sky; these alerts will enable rapid follow-up for events like supernovae, asteroids, and interstellar objects and are publicly accessible through the ANTARES broker.
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