Vera Rubin Observatory Debuts Stunning Celestial Photos to Rival the James Webb Space Telescope–LOOK

Vera Rubin Observatory Debuts Stunning Celestial Photos to Rival the James Webb Space Telescope–LOOK

Vera Rubin Observatory Debuts Stunning Celestial Photos to Rival the James Webb Space Telescope–LOOK The Tifrid and Lagoon nebulae – credit NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Your iPhone 16 camera has 48 megapixels. Astronomy’s latest toy has 3,200. That’s because the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side. It has to be able to do this because of its unique mission set, one which will compliment other observatories while adding in unprecedented capabilities. The observatory’s 3.2 gigapixel camera – credit NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory A perfect example of this is a statistic from a press statement on Monday, when the observatory debuted its first night of photos. It had detected 2,100 new asteroids, including seven which are considered to have near-Earth orbits. That’s 10% of what all ground and space telescopes do in a whole year of observing the night sky. Vera Rubin was built to see these asteroid…