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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 ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory (LSST) is a 8.4 m (330 in) reflecting telescope under construction on Cerro Pachón. Construction began in 2011 and first light is expected in late 2015. [ 43 ] It will be used for an astronomical survey similar to the 2MASS survey performed at CTIO.
This database will provide the worldwide astronomical community with sources and targets for the James Webb Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter Array, as well as future missions such as the Extremely Large Telescope, Thirty Meter Telescope, Square Kilometer Array, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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 April 8 solar eclipse will be broadcast live on both network TV and cable channels. NBC will air a two-hour special, "Total Eclipse 2024," at 2 p.m. ET. NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt ...
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 ...