Vera c. Rubin Observatory About 30 years ago was conceived, and now we are finally watching First images captured By the world’s largest camera. Rubin observatory Wage some photos Next to the official disclosure, with full declaration and celebration during a live stream.
Inside the observatory, with a specially designed telescope, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera. This is one 3200-megapixel imaging surface And is made of 189 individual sensors that are large from consumer-level medium-formal sensors. The camera is larger than a car, which produces an incredible amount of expansion.
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This image NSF-du Vera c. Rubin shows another small section of the total view of the Virgo cluster of the observatory. The visible two major spiral galaxies (lower right), three -merged galaxies (upper right), many groups of distant galaxies, Milky Way Galaxy have many stars and more in Galaxy. Image: NSF-Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
The team shared the above image during the presentation, but said that it is only 2% of the entire image. This is because the large -scale camera produces more data than that can see human eyes, and 400 Ultra HD TV will be required to display the entire image. It also provides 45 times the viewing area from the region of the moon.
To allow people to appreciate the capture completely, Rubin Observatory made one Special audience on your website This allows you to zoom in and scan around the image. You can also create a special URL for a specific section (and zoom level), which you are seeing, making you easier to share what you get in large -scale images with others. A video was also revealed, which provides a unique perspective of capturing LSST.
Within only 10 hours, the Rubin Observatory already revealed new discoveries, including 2104 asteroids. The team states that it will be able to discover millions of new asteroids within the first two years of the heritage survey of space and time, while all other land and space-based observatories compared to 20,000 asteroids discovered annually. You can see all asteroids in the short video below.
This is only what we LSST and Vera C. Rubin will see from the observatory. At the end of this year, it will shut down a decade long survey, which the team is calling “the last film of the night of the night”. The Rubin Observatory will scan the sky repeatedly during a decade, resulting in an ultra-wide, ultra-high-decimation time-laps of our universe.
The survey will include comments from about 40 billion stars, galaxies and other astronomical objects. Each object will be tested hundreds of times, resulting in 60 petabytes raw data, which Rubin Observatory says that “there is more data than everything written in any language in human history.”
However, the construction is still to finish before it begins. During the presentation, he said that he would complete the construction in the next three to four months, making sure that everything is ready to start a large project. It is not clear that they will share more images during that time, though.
The Observatory is jointly funded by the Office of the US National Science Foundation and the Department of Sciences Department of the US Energy. Located on a mountain in Chile, its name is American astronomer Vera C. Rubin is named after Rubin, which is famous for his dark matter research.
We will be sure to share more pictures after release, but for now, you can See recorded live stream and check Rubin Observatory website To hear more about the project and goals for the observatory.
