Vera C Rubin Observatory:
The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has released its first breathtaking images, showcasing the power of its 3,200-megapixel digital camera—the largest ever built.
- Vera C Rubin Observatory is located 8,684 feet above sea level atop the Cerro Pachónmountain in the Chilean Andes.
- Cerro Pachón was selected as the site for Rubin Observatory because it’s an excellent place to conduct high-quality astronomical and astrophysical science.
- It is named after American astronomer Vera C Rubin, who provided evidence about dark matter for the first time in the 1970s
- It is partnered with the S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF).
- This observatory will provide comprehensive images of the night sky unlike anything astronomers have seen before.
- It will constantly scan the sky of the southern hemisphere for 10 years, gathering 20 terabytes of astronomical data each night.
- The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts per night for each change detected in the sky.
- The centrepiece of the observatory is the Simonyi Survey Telescope
