The largest camera is ever launched its first photos from the universe

She floats on top Siro Pashon Mountain in Chile, a height of 8,684 feet in the Atacama desert, where dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to see the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything that has been built before it has begun to wipe the universe. Vera C. Rubin, called astronomy Evidence of a dark matter was discovered in 1978It is expected to reveal about 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million Nova, and millions of smaller things within the solar system.

“We are completely guaranteed to find something that blows people’s minds,” says Anthony Tyson, the chief scientist at the Robin Observatory. “Something we cannot tell you, because we do not know it. Something is unusual.”

This huge astronomical distance will come from 10 years from the observatory An old survey of place and timeWhich is scheduled to start later this year. The first scientific pictures of the telescope were released to the public today.

Robin’s unprecedented survey of the night sky is to transform our understanding of the universe. What happened during the early stages of the formation of the planet in the solar system? What are the types of high -energy strange explosions that occur in the universe? And how can the internal power that scientists call Dark energy In reality?

“You usually design a telescope or a project to go and answer one of these questions,” says Mario Gorek, a data management project in Robin. “What makes Robin very strong is that we can create a single device that provides data for the entire community to solve all these questions simultaneously.”

The telescope will create a long and accurate movie for the universe. You will create about 20 terabytes of data per day, equivalent to three years, Netflix flow, which accumulates about 60,000 terabytes by the end of the survey. In its first year alone, Robin will collect more data from all previous visual beta combined.

“You must have almost completely fully automated programs behind him, because no person can process these images or even look at these pictures,” says Gorek. “The vast majority of the pixel units that Robin will collect from the sky will never be seen by human eyes, so we have to build eyes for software to go to all these pictures and determine … the most strange beings.”

Those unusual things –Asteroids Of other solar systems, Super black holes Tired stars, high-energy explosions with no known source-specific secrets about the works of the universe.

“You are building a telescope like this, which is equivalent to building four or five telescopes for specific areas,” says Gorek. “But you can do it all once.”

The Observatory is on the top of Siro Pashon in Chile.NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/A. Bizaro d.

An unparalleled telescope

The Rubin Observatory is located in a 10 -storey building, with a preliminary mirror 8.4 meters and a 3200 -megapixel digital camera, the largest camera ever designed. The telescope rotates on a specialized mountain, with 30 seconds exposure to the sky before it quickly burned into a new position. Robin will take about 1000 photos every night, and photograph the entire southern heavenly sky with unusual details every three to four days.

“It is a great part of engineering,” says Sandrine Thomas, a project world that works on the visual tools for the Robin Observatory.