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The observatory is named for Vera Rubin, an American astronomer who pioneered discoveries about galactic rotation rates. The Rubin Observatory will house the Simonyi Survey Telescope, [14] a wide-field reflecting telescope with an 8.4-meter primary mirror [9] [10] that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights. [15]
Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...
Erin Howard poses on the summit of Chile's Cerro Pachón with the Vera C. Rubin observatory. Howard, a Bremerton native and Olympic College graduate, is part of the team erecting what will be the ...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory to be located in Cerro Pachón Observatory (El Peñón). Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (planned but not yet initiated). Potential sites in Chile were located in the Antofagasta region. Further information on the Extremely large telescope.
The Gemini Observatory, which operated Gemini North in Hawaii and Gemini South in Chile The Vera C. Rubin Observatory , which was constructing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile On October 1, 2019, these three organizations merged their operations to form NOIRLab.
Cerro Pachón is a mountain in central Chile, [2] located east of the city of La Serena in the Coquimbo Region. The mountain is seismically active. [3] It is the site of the 8.1 m Gemini South Telescope of the Gemini Observatory, [4] and the 4.1 m SOAR optical imager. [5] As of 2020, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is being constructed at this ...
She used galaxies' rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
In this image, shining brightly to the right of Comet Leonard is the planet Venus while down on Earth is Rubin Observatory, in its last stages of construction, perched on the Cerro Pachón ridge in north-central Chile. Rubin Observatory is a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy (DOE).