Bean Mount Cerro Pachón in Chile, 8,684 feet on the Atacama desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to see the night sky, a new telescope is unlike anything that has been built earlier that has started surveying the universe. Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named for astronomer Discover evidence of dark material in 1978It is expected to reveal about 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars under the galaxy, 10 million supernova and millions of smaller objects in the solar system.
Anthony Tyson, a chief scientist of the Rubin observatory. Something we can't tell you, because we don't know it. Something unusual.
This great astronomical shipping will come from 10 years of the observatory Survey of space and timeExpected to start later this year. The first scientific images from the telescope were released to the public today.
The unprecedented survey of Rubin about the night sky promises to transform our understanding of the universe. What happened in the early stages of the planet formation in the solar system? What kind of strange, high energy explosion occurs in the universe? And the esoteric force that the scientists call Dark energy Really active?
Usually, you will design a telescope or a project to go and answer one of these questions. What makes Rubin strong is that we can make a device that provides data for the entire community to solve all these questions at the same time.
The telescope will create a high -resolution film that lasts decades. It will produce about 20 Terabyte data per day, equivalent to three years of online networking Netflix, piling up about 60,000 Terabyte at the end of its survey. In the first year, Rubin will compile more data than all previous optical observatory.
You must have a completely automatic software set behind it, because no human being can handle or even look at these images, according to Mr. Jur Juric. The majority of the pixels that Rubin will collect from the sky will never be seen by human eyes, so we must build software eyes to go through all these images and identify the most unusual objects.
Those unusual subjects –Asteroid From other solar systems, Super hole super large The stars swallow, high energy explosions have no sources known for the secret of the operation of the universe.
You are building a telescope like this, and it is equivalent to the construction of four or five telescopes for specific areas, according to Mr. Jur Juric. But you can do it all at the same time.
Observatory at the top of Cerro Pachón in Chile.NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin/a. Pizarro D.
A telescope is unlike anyone
Located in a 10 -storey building, Rubin observatory is equipped with 8.4 -meter main mirror and 3,200 megapixel digital camera, the largest ever made. Astronomical glass rotates on a dedicated hanging rack, contacting the sky for 30 seconds before quickly rotating to a new position. Rubin will take about 1,000 images every night, taking photos of the entire Sky of the Southern Hemisphere in an extraordinary detail every three to four days.
This is a great part of the technique, Mr. Sandrine Thomas, a project scientist working on optical tools of the Rubin observatory.