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Posted on 06/04/2025 11:53:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Is the sky the same every night? No -- the night sky changes every night in many ways. To better explore how the night sky changes, the USA's NSF and DOE commissioned the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Cerro Pachón, Chile. In final testing before routine operations, Rubin will begin to explore these nightly changes -- slight differences that can tell us much about our amazing universe and its surprising zoo of objects. With a mirror over 8 meters across, Rubin will continually reimage the entire visible sky every few nights to discover new supernovas, potentially dangerous asteroids, faint comets, and variable stars -- as well as mapping out the visible universe's large-scale structure. Pictured, the distant central band of our Milky Way Galaxy appears to flow out from the newly operational observatory. Taken last month, the featured picture is a composite of 21 images across the night sky, capturing airglow on the horizon and the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy on the lower left.
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There is something about space that makes everyone go “wow.”
People just stop and stare.
It makes us ask questions.
It’s universal what I can tell.
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Oh wow...
Awesome!
A view of the Milky Way I don’t have from 42deg N
It takes up the entire sky, and yet it’s so far away you can’t really see it.
Vera Rubin is the lady who discovered Dark Matter. She also raised 4 kids, all of which became scientists. The telescope named after her is an incredible achievement. The amount of data it will collect every night is measured in terabytes.
Better then my camera.... Looks like a very big telephoto lens.
Many photos https://tinyurl.com/zneey7zm
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
3,200 megapixels! The camera heart of future Vera Rubin Observatory snaps record-breaking 1st photos
https://www.space.com/vera-rubin-observatory-record-breaking-first-photos.html
The photos are the largest single-shot pictures ever taken, SLAC officials said — so big that showing just one of them full-size would require 378 4K ultra-high-definition TVs. The resolution is so good that a golf ball would be visible from 15 miles (25 kilometers) away.
World’s largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a ‘time-lapse record of the universe’ (video)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/worlds-largest-digital-camera-to-help-new-vera-rubin-observatory-make-a-time-lapse-record-of-the-universe-photos
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