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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory under construction in Chile. Its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey , the Legacy Survey of Space and Time .
That's the same size of asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 injuring people and damaging buildings over 200 square miles. ... will begin working at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile ...
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 Florence Cooper Rubin (/ ˈ r uː b ɪ n /; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. [1] [2] She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves.
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).
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, former name of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory astronomical observatory in Chile Legacy Survey of Space and Time, an astronomical survey performed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory; Lowstand systems tract, a type of sedimentary deposit in sequence stratigraphy
She used galaxies' rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.