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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.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile – 8.4 m (330 in). First light planned in 2025. [26] San Pedro Martir Telescope, Baja California, Mexico – 6.5 m (260 in). First light planned in 2023. [27] [needs update] Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, New Mexico, USA – An optical interferometer array with ten 1.4 m (55 in) telescopes. The ...
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, obs. code: I41) is a wide-field sky astronomical survey using a new camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, United States. Commissioned in 2018, it supersedes the (Intermediate) Palomar Transient Factory (2009–2017) that used the same ...
She used galaxies' rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
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.