The new huge telescope reveals its first images of our universe

Vera c. Rubin Observatory, with a telescope with the largest digital camera ever, has revealed its first images.

In some of the most ancient sky of the world, Sero sits in Pachon in Chile, in some of the world’s most ancient sky.

It has an 8.4-meter Simony survey telescope with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, and will take images of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere for the next 10 years. It is capable of covering the sky all night every night.

Each night, it will produce 20 terabyte data with its 3,200-megapixel camera. To show an image in full size, you will need 400 Ultra high-definition television.

Renee Hlosec, an associate professor at Dunlop Institute and David A for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Dunlop Department, Vera c. Rubin is also a spokesperson for Dark Energy Science Cooperation at the Observatory.

“We usually think: ‘Oh, we need to take a long exposure,” but the camera is so sensitive that we actually take our photos 15 seconds or 30 seconds at a time, “Hlozech said.” If you have taken a picture for any time, you will saturate the entire camera. “

The size of images released on Monday is a part of the actual image taken by the telescope, Vera C. Rubin Observatory Director Zelzco Egic said.

Ivezic said during a news conference, “The whole image is 50 times older we are looking at the screen here.”

Hlozac is particularly excited about what the new telescope will explain about the expansion of the universe.

“It’s game-changing,” he said about the observatory. “I’m waiting for this data my entire academic career.”

Uncovering the secrets of the unive

One of the goals of this novel telescope is to help astronomers better understand dark matter and dark energy, both are invisible. Scientists know that they exist because they interact in our universe.

We only see about five percent of being present in our universe. Dark Energy – which is accelerating the expansion of the universe – makes about 70 percent.

Astronomers use special stars to measure the distance of galaxies. In return, it helps astronomers to calculate the expansion of the universe. Hlozek said that at present there are around 10,000 of these stars, but Rubin would disclose 500,000.

“So are we really able to pin the nature of this cosmic acceleration in a way that we have never done before?” Hlojek said.

Then there are dark materials, which is believed to have about 25 percent of the universe.

The term “dark matter” was coined by observing the coma galaxy cluster by astronomer Fritz Zaviki in the 1930s, including around 1,000 galaxies. He could not explain that galaxies in the cluster were moving fast, as they should use principles at that time.

Then in the 1970s, astronomer Vera Rubin confirmed the existence of the dark matter after studying how individual galaxies were rotated. Under the rules of physics, the stars in the outer rim of the galaxies should move at a slower pace than near the center, but instead they are moving very fast. Rubin determined that the stars were holding the stars together in some galaxies, stopping them from flying: dark matter.

Rubin Observatory will also map Milky Way, look for asteroids and film The biggest astronomical film was ever made,

The first visible data released on Monday also showed the discovery of more than 2,000 asteroids. But be sure that none of them are on the syllabus of confrontation with Earth, Ivezics said.

“No wonder,” he said, about the number of asteroids discovered.

All images and data are available to the general public along with astronomers around the world, Clar Higgs said outside astronomy at Rubin Observatory. There will also be civil science projects, where the public can contribute to new discoveries.

As astronomers are expected to find with this powerful telescope, Ivezic said: “We will look for unknown unknown.”

Astronomers at the observatory are relieved that it is finally running and running after decades of planning and construction.

“It’s great,” Sandrin Thomas, telescope and site project scientist said at the observatory. “This is actually a wonderful achievement.”