A cutting -edge telescope of almost 25 years of realization will finally reveal its first images on Monday 23 June and you can watch the event in real time.
The Observatory of Vera C. Rubin, perched on top of a mountain in the Chilean Andes, boasts the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. The telescope, supervised by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Energy Department (DOE), will use this 3.2 Gigapixel camera to the size of a car to capture images and videos at maximum high definition of the cosmos. During Monday, NSF and DOE will show Rubin’s first images to the public and shielded one of the high resolution “Time-Lapse” films.
You can participate by tuning on a live streaming or by participating in one of the feasts of guard person in museums, universities and planetaries around the world. The Observatory will begin to live the event at 11 and you can watch it right here. You can also use the interactive map on the Observatory website To find a watched party near you.
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More than two decades after the Rubin Observatory was the first conceived In a “Back-Of-The-Napkin” sketch, the construction of this huge telescope is finally being completed. Monday’s event marks the beginning of the ambitious scientific operations of the Observatory. By the end of the year, Rubin will kick off the Legacy survey on Space and Time (LSST), an unprecedented ten -year survey on the night sky.
This effort will produce 60 petobytes of data that will help scientists discover the true natures of dark matter and dark energy, cataloging the sun system, explore the sky that changes and understanding the structure and function of our galaxy of the Milky Way. Rubin will use its 27.6 -foot Simonyi survey telescope (8.4 meters), whose three -mirror design Includes The largest convex mirror ever made, to observe the cosmos in an automated program. Each 30 -second exhibition will cover an area about 45 times larger than the full moon. The huge LSST camera will capture the wide -field images and recover them to create a complete view of the southern sky every three nights.
The dedicated computer structures will process Rubin’s data in real time and will emit global changes of changes in the sky in a few minutes from the detection. The results of the Observatory will be channeled into a huge archive that will significantly increase the amount of data available for scientists.
Researchers led by astronomer Meg Schwamb at Queen’s University Belfast recently estimated The fact that Rubin could triple the number of nearby objects (Neos) known from about 38,000 to 127,000, detect ten times more trans-nepunian objects than those currently cataloged and provide colored and detailed observations of over 5 million main belt asteroids, for about 1.4 million. Documents that describe these forecasts and the Schwamb software and its colleagues developed to make them, called SorchaThey are currently available on the Preprint server Arxiv.
“With these data, we will be able to update the textbooks of the formation of solar systems and significantly improve our ability to identify – and potentially deviate – the asteroids that could threaten the earth”, said Mario Juric, a team member and an astronomer at the University of Washington, in a university, in a university declaration.
In many ways, Rubin’s Observatory will carry on the legacy of its homonymousAstronomo Vera Rubin. His work has contributed to demonstrating the existence of dark matterA discovery that moves the paradigm for the field of astronomy. In addition, he published over 100 scientific articles, has conducted revolutionary research on spiral galaxies and rotation of the galaxy and served as a pioneer for women in science. Like Rubin the astronomer, the Rubin Observatory will help to inaugurate the field in a new era of exploration and discovery.
With its cutting -edge skills, Rubin’s first images will surely have a dazzling. Monday’s event is only the beginning of the mission of this observatory to map the cosmos in unprecedented details, unlocking new intuitions on the secrets of the universe.
