Calling all Space Cadets,
James Webb [fans] please meet Vera C. Rubin.
Simply because we now are more interested in the much darker places of the universe
(VisibleMatter@5%, DarkMatter@27% and DarkEnergy@68%).
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory started w/a 10-year promise to deliver an inventory of "Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)".
Although Rubin Observatory has been operational for just a few days, it is still under the 10-year construction effort.
Having started in its mission to catch the universe in motion… LSST is hoped to reveal over 100X more objects in the universe that never have been observed or shown to exist (aka 'first light look').
There are plenty of youtube links for the first set of images that have been processed.
Of the few that I watched... this 90 minute discussion seems the most informative: [<< TL&DR version would be @29 minute mark; @40 minute mark; @52 minute mark]
As Spock would have said "Fascinating!"
ADD: Some of the other relevant ASR discussions are below:
Link#1
Link#2
Link#3
James Webb [fans] please meet Vera C. Rubin.
Simply because we now are more interested in the much darker places of the universe
(VisibleMatter@5%, DarkMatter@27% and DarkEnergy@68%).
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory started w/a 10-year promise to deliver an inventory of "Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)".
Although Rubin Observatory has been operational for just a few days, it is still under the 10-year construction effort.
Having started in its mission to catch the universe in motion… LSST is hoped to reveal over 100X more objects in the universe that never have been observed or shown to exist (aka 'first light look').
There are plenty of youtube links for the first set of images that have been processed.
Of the few that I watched... this 90 minute discussion seems the most informative: [<< TL&DR version would be @29 minute mark; @40 minute mark; @52 minute mark]
As Spock would have said "Fascinating!"
ADD: Some of the other relevant ASR discussions are below:
Link#1
Link#2
Link#3
