Телескоп обсерватории имени Веры К. Рубин вскоре покажет первые фотографии

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes, boasts the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. The telescope, operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), буду использовать this 3.2-gigapixel camera, which is the size of a car, to capture ultra-high-resolution images and video of space. During the event on Monday, NSF and DOE will showcase the first Rubin images to the public and show one of the observatory’s high-resolution “movies” of the visible sky, shot in slow motion.

You can take part in the event by connecting to the live stream or attending one of the in-person screenings at museums, universities and planetariums around the world. The Observatory will begin live streaming the event at 11 a.m. ET and you can watch it here. You can also use the interactive map on the observatory’s website to find a viewing party near you.

More than two decades after the Rubin Observatory was first conceived in a sketch on the back of a napkin, the construction of this enormous telescope is finally nearing completion. Monday’s event marks the beginning of the observatory’s ambitious scientific activities. Later this year, Rubin will launch the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), an unprecedented ten-year survey of the night sky.

The result will be 60 petabytes of data that will help scientists uncover the true nature of dark matter and dark energy, catalog the solar system, study the changing sky, and understand the structure and function of our Milky Way galaxy. Rubin will use its 27.6-foot (8.4-meter) Simonyi Survey telescope – whose unique three-mirror design includes the largest convex mirror ever created – to observe the cosmos on an