https://solarsystem.video/videos/watch/5396a81d-3b6f-41fe-ae4e-670f129e3892 01:44 LSST Sweeping the Skies by Meg Schmamb (Queen's University, Belfast, UK) 21:04 To Near-Earth Space (and Beyond) with LSST by Rosemary Dorsey (University of Helsinki, Finland) 52:16 Q&A High in the Chilean Andes is the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a next-generation facility. Rubin Observatory houses the world’s largest digital camera (3.2-gigapixel) capable of covering ~45 times of the size of the full Moon in a single image. With the ability to scan the visible night sky approximately once every three nights, this international facility is going make the largest "movie" of the changing night sky. Rubin Observatory will soon begin its 10-year mission with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to “download the sky” and make the most comprehensive census of objects in the Universe to-date. In these talks, we will present this new observatory, its capabilities, and how it is going to completely change our view of the Solar System from finding "killer asteroids", interstellar visitors, and distant small worlds (and maybe even a planet) beyond Neptune. The LSST is anticipated to discover an avalanche of new asteroids and comets throughout the Solar System. This will lead to revolutionary shifts in the current understanding of the formation and evolution processes that sculpted the Solar System we observe today: Objects on orbits exterior to Neptune (‘trans-Neptunian objects’) provide evidence for the migration history of the giant planets in the early Solar System, and may contain possible signatures of a yet undiscovered planet beyond Neptune (‘Planet 9’ or ‘Planet X’)., Long-period comets are probes of the distant Oort Cloud and its interactions with the surrounding galactic environment (passing stars and the tidal force of the local galaxy), as well as samples of relatively unprocessed primordial material from the early Solar System., Minor bodies closer to the Sun (centaurs, main belt asteroids and near-Earth objects) tell us about how physical properties like rotation, composition and size affect the evolution of an entire population. In addition to new findings about our Solar System, LSST is expected shed light on minor bodies from other stars within the galaxy, ‘interstellar objects’. These objects hold clues for the history of planet formation across the entire Milkyway galaxy., The upcoming LSST era of Solar System science is one to keep an eye on – it will illuminate and guide the following decades of scientific enquiry and space exploration. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:35:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://solarsystem.video https://solarsystem.video/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://solarsystem.video/videos/watch/5396a81d-3b6f-41fe-ae4e-670f129e3892 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://solarsystem.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.