Next Monday (23) It can be a historic day for astronomy. At 12 noon (Brasília time) the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will reveal its first official images on a day full of surprises. And the Digital LookOf course, it will convey everything live.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is located the summit of the Cerro Pachón mountain in the Atacama Desert, about 565 km north of Santiago, Chile, the installation houses the largest digital camera in the world.
Named “First Look”, the disclosure event will have simultaneous celebrations in several countries. You can follow everything live on Youtube of Digital Look from 12h (Brasília time).
How the Rubn Observatory will map the universe in real time
The Rubin Observatory is one of today’s most ambitious scientific initiatives. For the next 10 years, he will make an unprecedented record of the southern hemisphere sky, photographing the same stretch of space every three days, in repetitive movements, taking a picture every 30 seconds, which will help deepen research on the universe.
This work is part of a project called LSST, an acronym in English for “Legacy Survey of Space and Time”. Unlike other telescopes that focus only on small areas of the sky, Rubin will scan wide and constant. Each image produced by Superchamers has sufficient resolution to identify a golf ball 25 km away.
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To capture different types of light, the camera uses giant filters, sensitive from ultraviolet to infrared.
The main objective is to map the structure of the universe and investigate mysteries such as dark energy and dark matter, which together dominate the cosmos.
The telescope will also help track asteroids close to Earth, observe supernova explosions, and capture rare events such as the collision of neutron stars. In addition, it will allow you to detect changes in the shine of stars, which may indicate the presence of planets around them.
Most of the data collected will be public access, allowing scientists, students and even amateurs to make their own discoveries based on the images captured.
