The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has launched the first image using the largest camera in the world. The survey inherited from the field of vision of the resolution of 3200 megapixels of space and the time chamber.
Its high definition images use six different color filters can photograph 45 times the area of the full moon in the sky with each exhibition. So wide that it can capture the entire South sky in just three nights of shooting.
The objective of the program, named for Rubin, the American astronomer who was the first to establish the presence of dark matter in the galaxies, is to scan the entire sky of the southern hemisphere and obtain 1,000 high -definition photographs. The entire South sky was completed every three nights over the next ten years. Ten years is not much time, but any change that occurs during that time, the survey will reveal them.
The first published image of Vera C. Rubin with seven hours of observation time. Filters make it easier to see weak details such as gas clouds and the dust of the trifid nebula (top right) and the nebula of the lagoon, which are several thousand light years from the earth. © NSF-Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Its robotic filter exchange system automatically changes the color filters of the camera 5 to 15 times per night. The reason is to measure the amount of light emitted by objects, and then the triangulated position and the distance in relation to the Earth with greater precision between the 17 billion observable stars and 20 billion observable galaxies. It will compile 20 data terabytes every night.
President George W. Bush approved this in his first term, but the research and development struggles meant that it was only completed last year. The US Department of Energy and the National Foundation of EE. It was built on land because a project of that size must be based on the soil and repairs and improvements are possible. It was built in Chile because Hawaii had been the last state of the United States that activists had not blocked the development, but the last project, the thirty -meter telescope, had so much dissent manufactured by ‘Holes del Continent’, as the defenders of clean and well -paid jobs reduced it, which nobody wants to bother. Chile is much more friendly to science.
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