In Chile, a stealthy preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the New Vera Rubin Observatory made its way to news sites and social media last week, followed by a current incident.
The Observatory said in a post, “(Rubin is Observatory) The universe is going to make the biggest breakfast movie so far.”
The Observatory has been named for an American scientist, who has been given the relief to find some of the first evidence of dark matter, which has been financed by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
NSF and DOE scientists and officials last week participated in a news conference and question and answer about these results. You can see the stream below.
Millions of galaxies, big pictures
Although the current series was dealt with some technical issues, he still offered some context as to what data was being caught in the Rubin Observatory and why.
“From today, our ability to understand dark matter, dark energy and defense of planets will grow faster than ever,” said Brian Staff, the NSF chief of staff.
The 3,200 megapixel camera of the Observatory is used for a full sky scan, which is done every three to four days. Amazing images that the Observatory shares are just a part of something that is being caught, in some cases show only 2 % of the complete theory, which will require 400 HDTVs.
A photo can capture 10 million galaxies. Nearly, astronomers have discovered one million texts in our solar system and expect 5 million more to be discovered in the next few years.
