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Rubin Observatory Unleashes Real-Time Sky Alerts, 800,000 Notifications Overnight

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Rubin Observatory Unleashes Real-Time Sky Alerts, 800,000 Notifications Overnight
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory kicked off its real‑time alert system, dispatching 800,000 sky-change notifications to researchers worldwide in its first run. The alerts flagged events like supernovae, asteroids, variable stars, and active galactic nuclei, and are powered by the Alert Production Pipeline designed to scale up to about 7 million alerts per night, enabling rapid follow‑up observations as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time proceeds.

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  1. Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From Observatory Watching the Night Skies  Gizmodo
  2. Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night  Scientific American
  3. 20 billion galaxies: new survey of the sky will reveal the universe in unprecedented detail  The Conversation
  4. Getting closer to the stars: Fink, a French tool for tracking transient phenomena across the observable universe  Phys.org
  5. NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Discovery Machine for Monitoring the Night Sky  Rubin Observatory

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