8 MINUTES AGO Vera Rubin Observatory JUST BROKE THE INTERNET With This Discovery!

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major astronomical facility located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. It is named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter.

First Light: Achieved in June 2025, with the release of the first images revealing billions of stars, galaxies, and thousands of previously unseen asteroids.

Full Survey Operations: The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) officially began in July 2026 and will run for ten years.

The observatory features an 8.4-meter telescope equipped with the world’s largest digital camera (3,200 megapixels). It captures images of the southern sky every 40 seconds, generating approximately 20 terabytes of data nightly to create a comprehensive, time-lapse record of the universe. Its primary scientific goals are probing dark energy and dark matter, cataloging the solar system (including the potential discovery of Planet Nine), exploring transient events, and mapping the Milky Way.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is in the early stages of its ten-year mission, having officially begun full survey operations in July 2026 (specifically June 30, 2026).

Prior to full operations, the observatory captured its first images during test runs in June 2025, which included a composite of 678 images taken over seven hours and a video combining 1,100 images.

During its full survey, the telescope is designed to capture approximately 1,000 images per night, with each image covering an area as large as 45 full moons. Over the course of the decade-long survey, it is expected to generate more than 2 million images and produce 500 petabytes of data.

&08r totally uninformed response desnt deserve a response, but I will tell you the reality.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is equipped with the LSST Camera, recognized as the world's largest digital camera. Designed and built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, this 3,200-megapixel sensor weighs approximately 3,000 kilograms and is roughly the size of a small car.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera is the world’s largest digital camera, featuring a 3,200-megapixel resolution achieved through 189 custom CCD sensors, whereas the best modern smartphone cameras typically max out at 50 megapixels using CMOS sensors.

Resolution Scale: The Rubin camera’s sensor contains roughly the same number of pixels as 260 to 300 modern cell-phone sensors combined.

Physical Dimensions: Weighing approximately 3,000 kilograms (6,600 lbs) and sized like a small car, the Rubin camera is vastly larger than a phone camera module. Technology: While phone cameras use CMOS sensors, the Rubin camera uses CCD technology optimized for low read noise and cooled to -150°F (-100°C) to minimize grain in deep-space imaging.

Field of View: The Rubin camera captures images of the sky covering an area as large as 40 full moons in a single 30-second exposure, compared to the narrow field of view of a smartphone lens.

So, even though you thought it was fun to pile on, like most of the others, I wiull actually educate you just a wee bit to let you realize just how ignorant tyyour response really was.

That is only one fact that is described in the video. I'll agree that the title associated with the video, is what a clickbait post might resemble, however, never judge a post until you at least investiagate it to a degree, because we are required to use the actual title associated with what we are posting.

It further compares what it previously took to the latest images taken ro see hat differences the images are revealing. No human being could ever do that task as comprehevisvely as the computer can, nor as quickly. We mibht catch any real obvious difgference that jumps out at us, but we would miss the majority of them. The differences they spot are reported back in descennding imporatance order so the the more important differences are listed first going down the scale of importance. I forget how many wide screen TVs it would take to show the entire picture as a whole, but it was a very high number.

The video most likely is generated by AI, but there are many reasons for one to use AI to generate the video, but that still doesn't mean that it is devoid of intersting information regarding a real observatory that was 20 years in the planning & development, and it was tested last symmer to share some of the first images it caight, and starting June, 30th of this year it began its 10 year mission, and some of what they are seeing is incredible. AI is a very ingenious creation. created by mankind. All of the scare objections about the machine taking over, are what creators built into the programming to make people think that the machine is capable of thinking, but the machine just does what it is told to do. It does the job much faster than a humnan being could ever do, and it doesn't suffer from fatigue.

I believe that AI figure is used in many topics. Such as reporting on the Iran war as well. Could be that the person behind it is rather handsomely versed in several areas. There are people oiut there who are so gifted, believe it or not. They are just interested in multiple topics. Elon Musk is an example. That doesn't mean they are always correct, but they are providing what they know & believe, which is exactly what all people do. Some just have a far better batting average, wehen it comes to knowledge they actually have stored within theiir brains. We have many of them amongst us, even though they are rare exceptions.

Then we have people who think they may be one of those people, when in reality they are not, but they do seem to influence enough people who believe that they are. They are the ones that truly bring forth danger & evil. Anthony Fauci would be the example I would put forth as one of those types of people.

I can’t actually point you to a video of the new telescope’s findings, but the telescope sees what it is aimed at every night, night after night after night. I have though actually seen the video and the telescope’s computer marking the asteroid and following it each night. The videos do however exist.

Making the map of all that it can see is the telescopes job

The stars are fixed but the very tiny asteroids are in fact tracked by the telescopes amazing ability to see so very well. As I recall, each is specifically identified.

To me, what is revealed is quite humbling.

It has asends alerts when a star is exploding, called a super nove, and the alerts go out to other observatories, so that they can turn theoir equipment to catch from other angles. These events last several days, and as long as a week, if my memory serves me well.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already captured approximately 10 million galaxies in its initial test imagery, which represents a mosaic of the Virgo Cluster.

Over the course of its planned 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the observatory expects to chart approximately 20 billion galaxies in total.

It is these kinds of facts that made me want to share it. because I just love to be ridiculed by people who want to make fun of a headline (title) for which I had no part in its creation, and actually didn't necessarily like how it was created, because it debases what is actually being reported on.

Thank goodness I am a thick-skinned Freeper who ignores the insults. For there are those like you as well. 😁🤙

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