The most powerful telescope on Earth has been launched
The Vera K. Rubin Observatory, located on Cerro Pachon Mountain in Chile, has officially begun work. The telescope installed in it with a unique 3.2-gigapixel LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and Time) camera demonstrated impressive results already in the first hours of observations.
According to 3DNews, with reference to TechSpot, in less than a day, the LSST camera recorded the light of millions of space objects and made it possible to detect 2,104 previously unknown asteroids. Among them are 7 near—Earth ones, which, according to scientists, do not pose a threat to the planet.
The published images include a mosaic of 678 images of the Laguna Nebula and the Triple Nebula, located about 9,000 light-years from Earth. The shooting lasted 7 hours and allowed us to obtain images with unprecedented detail.
The telescope uses a system of 3 mirrors with diameters of 8.4, 5.7 and 3.3 meters, focusing light on camera sensors measuring 3 by 1.65 meters and weighing about 2.8 tons. It is able to cover an area of the sky 40 times the size of the full moon in one exposure.
The LSST project has been developed since 2003. Early funding was provided by Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates, later joined by the US National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. The observatory will scan the southern sky every 3-4 days for the next decade.
It is expected that with the help of the new telescope, astronomers will be able to discover about 20 billion new galaxies and more than 90 thousand near-Earth asteroids, and the total amount of scientific data collected can reach 500 petabytes. In addition, in the first year of operation, the instrument can confirm or refute the hypothesis of the existence of the ninth planet of the Solar system, which is assumed to be located far beyond the orbit of Neptune and makes one revolution around the Sun in 10-20 thousand years.
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The most powerful telescope on Earth has been launched
One of the most advanced telescopes in the history of astronomy has started operating at the Vera Rubin Observatory in the Chilean Andes. In the first 10 hours of observations, he recorded millions of celestial bodies and discovered over 2,000 new asteroids.