SCOTT OVERTON

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Since writing new books and all the messy business of publishing doesn’t leave me time to blog very often anymore, here’s another way I hope to share some of the fascinating science (and other) news stories I come across.

A big reason I’m doing this is that Facebook in Canada won’t let us share news links (due to a pouty tiff with our government) and X/Twitter has become a dumpster fire.

It doesn’t make sense for me to rewrite what’s already been well-written in these articles so I’ll just post the links with brief descriptions of the content and you can choose to follow them or not. I hope you will!

June 23, 2025

THE BIGGEST CAMERA EVER BUILT

June 23, 2025/ Scott Overton

If you thrilled to the amazing images from the Hubble Space Telescope and have been blown away by the intergalactic views from the newer James Webb Space Telescope, brace yourself. The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory on a mountaintop in Chile will open up vistas never seen before, thanks to the largest camera ever built: 3200 megapixels worth of image captured in 30-second exposures about a thousand times every night. The plan is to photograph the entire sky of the Southern Hemisphere every few days to create a ten-year long high-definition digital record. So much information only extremely sophisticated software will be able to analyse it.

It's hard to even imagine the number of never-before-seen features the Rubin will be able to find, but you can read more here. Prepare to be amazed.