REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — With a camera LSST The 3,200 megapixel, Vera C Rubin Observatory will create the greatest film of all time and the most informative map of the night sky ever created. The Vera C Rubin Observatory will start soon Legacy Survey of Space and Time or LSST, which has been going on for a decade, monitoring the entire sky in the Southern Hemisphere thousands of times over.
A mission of that size certainly requires a camera of the same size. Fortunately, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is ready to provide this. Scientists and engineers at SLAC have officially completed the LSST camera, the largest digital camera ever built.
The 3,200 megapixel LSST camera is the size of a compact car and weighs 3 metric tons, which is about half the weight of a male African bush elephant. LSST’s wide-field views will attempt to solve the lingering mysteries surrounding dark energy, the force that accounts for about 70 percent of the energy content of matter in the universe and is causing the expansion of the cosmos to accelerate.
Reported Space on Friday (5/4/2024), LSST will also investigate dark matter, a mysterious substance which accounts for around 85 percent of all objects in the cosmos even though it is invisible to the human eye, as well as answering other astronomical questions.
Rubin Observatory Construction Director, Željko Ivezić said, this camera will produce the greatest film of all time and the most informative map of the night sky ever made.
“The data collected by the LSST and Rubin cameras will be truly groundbreaking. This will enable incredibly sharp studies of the expanding universe and dark energy,” said SLAC professor and Deputy Director of the Rubin Observatory and Camera Program Leader, Aaron Roodman.
LSST will allow humans to see billions of galaxies, about 17 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and millions of solar system objects. “We will not look at objects one by one. “We will see everything in the night sky from our mountaintop location in Chile,” said Roodman.
The amazing thing about these camera images is how big they will be, how large an area they will cover in the sky, and how many stars and galaxies they will capture.
However, this large size does not mean that LSST cameras will be behind the times in terms of detail. “The images are so detailed that they can capture a golf ball from about 15 miles away, while covering a sky seven times larger than the full moon,” Roodman said.
One of the advantages of LSST….
2024-04-05 13:26:22
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