The roof of Cerro Pachón Mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet are high in the Atacama desert, where dry air makes any situation in the sky before the survey of the cosmos. Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named for astronomers who Discovered evidence of the dark matter of 1978It is expected to reveal about 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the milky passage, 10 million supernovas, and millions of small items within the solar system.
“We guarantee to find something that blows the minds of people,” Anthony Tyson said, chief scientist on the Rubin observator. “Something we don’t tell you, because we don’t know it. Something unusual.”
This intense astronomical heul comes from 10 years of observatory SPORSE HATE SURVEY AND TIMEending at the beginning of the late year. The first images of science from the telescope are released to the public today.
Rubin’s previous survey in the night sky promises to change our understanding of the cosmos. What happened in the first stages of planet formation in the solar system? What types of exotic, high-energy bursts occur in the universe? And how the esoteric calls the scientists called black energy actually worked?
“You usually design a telescope or a project to go and answer one of these questions,” says Mario Juric, the Data Management Project Scientist for Rubin. “The Rubin Powerful is that we can build a machine that provides data across the community to solve all questions at one time.”
The telescope would make a decade, high resolution movie in the universe. It will make up about 20 terabytes of data each day, the equivalent of three years with Netflix, with about 60,000 terebytes at its end of the survey. In the first year alone, Rubin assembles several data than all previous optical ofcvatories mixed.
“You should have an almost perfect automated software suite behind it, because no person can process or even view these images,” Juric said. “Most pixels Rubin collect from the sky never see the human eyes, so we need to build the software to reach all images and get to know … the most unusual things.”
Those unusual things-asteroids from other solar systems, SuperMassive Black Holes Stars are strips, bursts of high energy with no known source-secrets about the cosmos’ work.
“You build a telescope like this, and it corresponds to build four or five telescopes for specific places,” said Juric. “But you can do it all at once.”
The observatory at Cerro Pachón’s Summit in Chile.NSF-Doe Vera C. Rurin Onffvatory / A. Pizarro D.
A telescope like nothing
Set up in a 10-storey building, Rubin’s observatory is equipped with a mirror of 8.4-meter leading mirror and 3,200-megapixel digital camera, the maximum established. The telescope rotates a specialist mount, carrying 30-second sky exposures before quickly causing a new position. Two images are about 1,000 images every night, photographs the whole sky in the southern hemisphere of the unusual detail every three to four days.
“It’s an odd piece of engineering,” says Sandine Thomas, a project scientist working on the Optourtic instruments in Rubin’s Observatory.
