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The National Science Foundation has just shared The first images Captured by the Verra C. Rubin observatory, a sample of the images he will capture in the context of a planned investigation of a decade which begins later in 2025. The project, nicknamed the “survey inherited from time and space” should lead to the discovery of “millions of new asteroids in the first two years” that the statement is executed.
In just a period of 10 hours, the National Science Foundation says that the Rubin Observatory “discovered 2,104 asteroids without sight In our solar system, including seven asteroids close to the earth. “The long -term investigation project could lead to even more information, especially on larger cosmic unknowns such as dark matter and dark energy.
The idea is appropriate given the origins of the observatory. Funded jointly by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science of the Ministry of Energy, the large synoptic telescope in Cerro Pachón, Chile was renamed the Vera C. Rubin observatory after astronomer Vera C. Rubin, whose research on gravitational rotation was used as conclusive proof of the existence of black matter.
THE short video The above integration should give you a good sense of the scale of the Rubin Observatory operation. It is an assembled view of around 10 million galaxies captured for 10 hours of photography, “about 0.05% of the approximately 20 billion galaxies” that the observatory will capture during its survey.
“The quantity of data collected by the Rubin Observatory during its first year alone will be greater than that collected by all the other combined optical observatories”, explains the National Science Foundation. “This data treasure will help scientists make countless discoveries on the universe and will serve as an incomparable resource for scientific exploration for the decades to come.”
