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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 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 an important paper co-authored with astronomer Vera Rubin in 1970, [6] and a follow-up paper in 1980, [7] Rubin and Ford established that the orbits of stars around the center of galaxies (the "galaxy rotation curve") does not decrease with distance from the galactic center, as expected from Kepler's rotation law, but remains constant (or "flat") with distance.
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.
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 site. [6] The mountain site has arid, desert conditions with cacti, shrubs, and wildflowers dotting the landscape.
Malibu Feed Bin, a landmark pet food store with a retro 70s vibe along the Pacific Coast Highway, was completely destroyed, according to a post on its Facebook page. "We lost the Feedbin today ...