Rubin Observatory’s commissioning digital camera (ComCam)
Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand
Someday in Could or June, because the southern hemisphere winter units in beneath the skies of the Chilean Atacama desert, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will open its dome and the biggest digital digital camera in historical past will seize its first science-grade picture of the cosmos. Underneath the Atacama’s pristine and steady ambiance, Rubin will start a 10-year mission to supply humanity with a rare new imaginative and prescient of the cosmos with the Legacy Survey of Area and Time (LSST).
Twenty-four years within the making, the observatory is a model new astronomical facility.…
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