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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of everything from the history of the solar system to the workings of dark energy.
Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. Giant stars pulverized by supermassive black holes, massive collisions that release gravitational waves, and bizarre scenarios that astrophysics haven’t even considered will show up in unprecedented numbers. Rubin’s images will be so comprehensive that astrophysicists believe they could even help untangle the mystery of dark energy, the force of unknown origin that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe.
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