Perched atop a mountain in Chile\u2019s Coquimbo region, where some of the world\u2019s darkest skies stretch over the Andes, a giant \u200bobservatory has begun filming the infinite to create the first movie \u200cof the universe.<\/p>\n
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, a joint programme of the US National Science Foundation\u2019s NOIRLab and the US Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, officially launched its \u200bdecade-long survey of the night sky on June 29.<\/p>\n
Equipped with a massive \u200b3.2-billion-pixel camera, the facility will photograph the entire visible southern sky every three to four nights, generating a constantly updated record of cosmic \u200bchange.<\/p>\n
\u201cRubin is a new way of really looking at the universe,\u201d said Stuartt Corder, \u200bmission scientist for AURA in Chile and deputy director of NOIRLab. \u201cIt\u2019s providing a sort of a movie of the night sky instead of snapshots of small parts of the sky, \u200bwhich is how traditional astronomy has been done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rubin will repeatedly scan vast portions \u200bof the sky, tracking how stars, galaxies, and other objects evolve over time, which Corder \u200csays will give a dynamic view of how measurements and objects are changing.<\/p>\n
Astronomers will be alerted when a star explodes, an asteroid passes nearby or an unfamiliar object suddenly appears, and be able to track it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perched atop a mountain in Chile\u2019s Coquimbo region, where some of the world\u2019s darkest skies stretch over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-555687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}