{"id":70917,"date":"2025-10-10T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:55:09","slug":"vera-c-rubin-observatory-the-best-inventions-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70917\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera C. Rubin Observatory: The Best Inventions of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Astronomy\u2019s newest telescope is a cosmic paparazzi, taking <a href=\"https:\/\/rubinobservatory.org\/news\/first-imagery-rubin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about 1,000 pictures<\/a> of the southern sky every night from a mountaintop in Chile. With giant mirrors concentrating starlight into a 3,200-megapixel camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to reveal billions of cosmic objects in the next decade, and could solve some tantalizing mysteries\u2014including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/vera-rubin-observatory-new-telescope-science-mysteries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whether another planet exists<\/a> beyond Pluto. Sandrine Thomas, the deputy director of Rubin&#8217;s construction, calls it a &#8220;discovery machine;&#8221; in a preview this summer, Rubin snapped more than 2,000 never-before-seen <a href=\"https:\/\/rubinobservatory.org\/news\/rubin-first-look\/swarm-asteroids\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asteroids<\/a>. The observatory is expected to begin full operations by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomy\u2019s newest telescope is a cosmic paparazzi, taking about 1,000 pictures of the southern sky every night from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[47092,47093,47091,8177,9810,61,60,28976,709,82,247,47094,12277],"class_list":["post-70917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-accolades","tag-best-inventions","tag-best-inventions-2025","tag-e-commerce","tag-franchise","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-list","tag-magazine","tag-science","tag-space","tag-special-project","tag-sponsorshipblock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917","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=70917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}