Randall Productions is developing an hour for PBS/NOVA about the Vera Rubin Observatory

Using the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the entire southern night sky every three nights, taking a 3200-megabyte image every 90 seconds.  6,000 of those images will be stitched together to form a panoramic picture of what the sky looked like 3 days ago, 3 weeks ago, 3 years ago, and ultimately 10 years ago; an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the Universe—a movie of the cosmos in action; each panorama detecting about 10 million changes. 

What Are UFOs?

Aired on PBS/NOVA, January 22, 2025, 9PM EST 8PM CDT

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