“We are absolutely guaranteed to find something that blows people’s minds,” says Anthony Tyson, scientist head of the Rubin Observatory. “Something we can’t tell you, because we don’t know it. Something unusual.”
This huge astronomical ray will come from the 10th anniversary of the Observatory Legacy survey on space and timewhich should start by the end of the year. The first scientific images of the telescope were released to the public today.
Rubin’s unprecedented investigation on the night sky promises to transform our understanding of the cosmos. What happened during the early stages of the planet’s formation in the Solar System? What types of high energy exotic explosions occur in the universe? And how do the esoteric force that scientists call dark energy really work?
“You usually plan a telescope or a project to go and answer one of these questions,” says Mario Juric, a data management project scientist for Rubin. “What makes Rubin so powerful is that we can build a machine that provides data to the entire community to resolve all these questions simultaneously.”
The telescope will create a ten -year and high resolution film of the universe. It will generate about 20 terabyte of data per day, the three -year equivalent streaming in Netflix, accumulating about 60,000 terabyte by the end of its survey. Only in his first year, Rubin will compile more data than all previous combined optical observers.
“You must have an almost completely automated software suite, because no human being can elaborate or even look at these images,” says Juric. “The vast majority of the pixels that Rubin is about to collect from the sky will never be seen by human eyes, so we have to build software eyes to cross all these images and identify … the most unusual objects.”
Those unusual-sieroid objects of other solar systems, supermassichi black holes that soften the stars, high-energy explosions without a note known-with secrets on the functioning of the cosmos.
“Build a telescope like this, and it is the equivalent of building four or five telescopes for specific areas,” says Juric. “But you can do everything at once.”
The Observatory on the top of Cerro Pachón in Chile.NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/A. Pizarro D.
A telescope like no one else
Housed in a 10 -storey building, the Rubin Observatory is equipped with a 8.4 meter primary mirror and a 3,200 megapixel digital camera, the largest ever built. The telescope revolves on a specialized support, taking exposures of the sky of 30 seconds before turning quickly in a new position. Rubin will take about 1,000 images every night, photographing the entire sky of the southern hemisphere in extraordinary detail every three or four days.
“It is a fantastic piece of engineering,” says Sandrine Thomas, a scientist from the project that works on the optical tools of the Rubin Observatory.
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