The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

Upward Chile’s Sero Pachan Mountain, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry wind creates some of the best situations in the world to watch the night sky, a survey of cosmos begins against anything before a new telescope was built. Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the astrologer who has named Invented the evidence of Dark Matter in 1978About 20 billion galaxies in the solar system, 17 billion stars in Milky Way, 10 million supernovas and several million small objects are expected to release.

“We are guaranteed to find something that blows people’s minds,” said Anthony Tyson, chief scientist of the Rubin Observatory. “Something that we can’t tell you because we don’t know it. Something unusual.”

This extraordinary astronomical event will come from 10-year-old observation Survey the inheritance of space and periodWhich will start this year later. The first science images from the telescope were published to the public today.

Rubin’s unprecedented survey by The Night Sky promises to transform us about the universe. What happened in the early stages of planet formation in the solar system? What kind of external, high-power explodes in the universe? And how the scientists call the asoterick force Darkness Actually work?

Rubin’s Data Management Project Scientist Mario Zurik says, “Usually you will design a telescope or a project to answer one of this question.” “Makes Rubin so strong that we can make a machine that provides data to the whole community to solve all these questions at once”

The telescope will create a decade long, high-resolution movie in the universe. It will produce about 20 terabytes of data per day, it is equivalent to a three -year streaming netflix, piles about 60,000 terabytes at the end of its survey. Only in his first year, Rubin will compile more data than all the previous optical observators.

Zurik says, “You have to have almost completely automatic software suit on you, because no one can process or even see these images,” Zurik said. “Most of the pixels that are about to collect from the Rubin sky are never seen by human eyes, so we need to create our software eyes to go through all these images and … to identify the most unusual objects.”

This unusual object-Asteroid From other solar systems, Supermasive black holes The consumed stars, without any familiar sources, have privacy about the work of the high-power explosion-universe.

Zurik says, “You make a telescope like this and it is equivalent to making four or five telescopes for certain areas,” Zurik says. “But you can do it at once.”

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A telescope is not like anyone else

Keeping in a 10-storey building, the Rubin Observatory is equipped with 8.4-meter primary mirrors and a 3,200-megapixel digital camera, it is now the largest built so far. The telescope rotates in a special mount, quickly receives exposure to 30-seconds in the sky before pivoting in a new position. Rubin will take about a thousand images every night, taking pictures of the entire southern hemisphere in extraordinary details every three to four days.

“This is an amazing part of engineering,” said Sandrin Thomas, a project scientist working on the optical instruments of the Rubin Observatory.