NEWS: 

📌 January 20th 2026 - Rubin-LSST@Italy, one day national meeting, INAF Capodimonte Observatory (Registration open!)

October 25, 2024 NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory Test Camera Sees the Sky: got the first photon!

March 5, 2025 The LSST Camera installation was successfully completed the week of March 5 

June 11, 2025 - LSST Discovery Alliance public meeting on the first data preview 

June 23, 2025: First Look at the cosmos with NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Public Event at INAF-OAPA)

The Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin-LSST) is a cutting-edge project aiming to perform a ten-year monitoring of the Southern sky in six photometric bands. 

The survey will be carried out from Cerro Pachon (Chile) by a telescope with an aperture of 8.4 m and a large field of view of 9.6 squared degrees.

It will provide an important contribution in several fields of astrophysical research, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter, the evolution of galaxies and the structure of the Milky Way, exploiting astronomy in the time domain to discover transients and map both the inside and the outside of the Solar System. 

The Italian participation to Rubin-LSST is led and funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF). 

As all the International partners, Italian researchers obtain data rights through an In-kind Program, offering in-kind contributions of different types to the US and Chilean scientific communities.

However, the involvement of the Italian scientific community in Rubin-LSST is not limited to the in-kind contributions, but includes a series of both research and coordination activities started in 2017.