Space
A Chilean Observatory reveals first spectacular images
After having taken over 20 years, the Verra Rubin observatory, located in Chile, published first breathtaking images.
This image offers an incredible view of the pile of galaxies of the Virgin.
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The team of the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published its first images on Monday, revealing breathtaking views of distant galaxies and regions where the stars are formed.
This giant telescope financed by the National Foundation for Science and the American Ministry of Energy is located in Chile, an ideal place to observe the cosmos, thanks to a low cloud cover and a dry climate.
This image shows the trifid nebula and the lagoon nebula, several thousand light years from the earth.
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After having taken more than 20 years to emerge, the observatory published its first images, including that of the trifid nebula and the lagoon nebula, several thousand light years from the earth. This image of a bright pink on a red-orange background is the result of 678 shots made in the space of seven hours.
“Investment in our future”
It reveals these children’s nursery within our Milky Way in an unprecedented level of detail, making it clearly visible elements never observed before.
Another image offers an incredible view of the cluster of Galaxies of the Virgin. The observatory team has also published a video called “cosmic treasure chest” with a close -up on two galaxies which ends up gradually revealing about ten million more.
“The Rubin observatory is an investment in our future, which will today lay the cornerstone of knowledge on which our children will proudly build tomorrow,” said Michael Kratsios, the head of scientific and technological policy at the White House.
8.4 meter telescope
Equipped with an 8.4 -meter telescope and the largest astronomical camera never built in the world, the observatory relies on a powerful data processing system.
Later in the year, he will start the project “The Legacy Survey of Space and Time” (LSST), which will allow, in the next decade, to sweep the sky every night, to capture the most subtle changes with unequaled precision.
The Vera C. Rubin observatory is called the American astronomer who discovered dark matter, a mysterious matter which acts as a cement of galaxies, preventing that the stars are ejected.
2104 Asteroids discovered in 10 hours
Black energy is a mysterious force responsible for the expansion of the universe. Together, energy and dark matter are supposed to constitute 95% of the universe. The observatory is also considered one of the most powerful instruments to follow asteroids.
In just ten hours, he discovered 2104 new asteroids in our solar system, including seven close to the earth and representing no danger. All the other combined observatories, whether in space or on earth, discover around 20,000 new asteroids per year.
It should also be the most effective in identifying interstellar objects crossing our solar system. New images are expected to be unveiled on Monday in the morning.
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