by The team behind the long -awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile released her first pictures on Monday and unveiled breathtaking views of stambling regions and remote galaxies.
For more than two decades in the creation, the huge US telescope sits on the summit of Cerro Pachon in the center of Chile, where dark sky and dry air offer ideal conditions for observing the cosmos.
One of the debut images is a composition of 678 exposure that were only taken over for seven hours and the Trifid fog and the lagoon lobes of several thousand light years from the earth-enclosing in lively pink against orange-red backdrops.
The picture shows these stellar kindergartens in unprecedented details in our Milky Way, whereby weak or invisible features are now clearly visible.
Another picture offers a comprehensive view of the Jungfrau Galaxia cluster.
The team also published a video called “Cosmic Treasure Chest”, which begins with a close -up of two galaxies before revealing around 10 million more.
“The Rubin Observatory is an investment in our future, which will today determine a cornerstone of the knowledge where our children will proudly build up tomorrow,” said Michael Kratsios, director of the Office for Science and Technology for Science and Technology.
Equipped with an advanced 8.4-meter telescope and the largest digital camera that has ever been built, the Rubin Observatory is supported by a powerful data processing system.
Later this year it will begin its flagship project with the legacy overview of space and time (read). In the next ten years it scans the night sky every evening and even records the most subtle visible changes with unsurpassed precision.
The observatory is named after the groundbreaking American astronomer Vera C. Rubin, the research of which gave the first conclusive evidence of the existence of dark matter – a mysterious substance that does not spend light, but exerts gravitational influence on galaxies.
Dark energy refers to the equally mysterious and immense power, from which it is assumed that it drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. Together it is assumed that dark matter and dark energy make up 95 percent of the cosmos, but its true nature is unknown.
The observatory, a joint initiative by the US National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, was also called one of the most powerful tools that were ever built for the persecution of asteroids.
In just 10 hours after observations, the Rubin Observatory 2,104 previously undiscovered asteroids in our solar system, including seven near-earth objects, did not pose any threat.
For comparison, all other floor and room-based observatories discover around 20,000 new asteroids a year.
Rubin is also the most effective observatory to recognize interstellar objects that go through the solar system.
More pictures from the observatory are expected to be published on Monday morning.
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