Building the most advanced observatory in the world

Astrophysicist Dr Tamara Davis takes a sneak peak at the Rubin Observatory in Chile. Once complete, it'll record the entire night sky in just three days. Subscribe to ABC Science KZbin 👉 ab.co/2YFO4Go
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[@jonathanm9436]

How remarkable. Thanks for bringing this to us.

[@ABCScience]

Thanks for watching!

[@paulbedichek5177]

This is taking forever, been following this for 10 years.

[@chrisbarlow8605]

Yh is it ready now? It's taken ages.

[@executivesteps]

Work stopped during the Covid epidemic.

[@EdBate]

First light should happen Q1 2025 it should be fully operational sometime Q2-Q3 2025

[@executivesteps]

@@EdBate Great news!

[@antoniohinojos3808]

8.6M primary? Woah, here I am with my 90mm 😂

[@johnh539]

3.2 giga pixel! Every square millimetre of that image is going to be like you specifically focused on it. Lovely architecture, in a amazing location, it looks beautiful already. definite 👍for the episode.

[@spencer6104]

not to take away from this scope, but there is something so very organic and emotional about seeing it with your own eyes and not through a computer screen.

[@richardhedd3080]

We humans can do some absolutely amazing things when we want to.

[@rdallas81]

Yeah. At the same time do ungodly terrible things to our earth and to each other.

[@GereDJ2]

But we can't cure the common cold or stop global warming.

[@scasey1960]

Great to meet the men who build these facilities.

[@Macca260]

The Rolls Royce of telescopes

[@oatlord]

What a cool place to work i bet. Nightly smokes would be fantastic.

[@bozku8815]

Thank You, that you make your Word truth 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😃🙂.

[@Romeroifly]

This is what should we invest in, not wars.

[@paulbedichek5177]

If not for defense not one human would exist. Astronomy and defense have massive overlaps,Hubble was a spy satellite,left over by the spy agency. Most of our technical advancements come from defense. Our highway system was a defense item. Every organism on Earth struggles against competitors not just humans.

[@jc4evur661]

Now they need to come up with a way to avoid the MANY Starlink satellites that this telescope will capture nightly.

[@malcolmcurran6248]

But how? Starlink has already light polluted much of the night sky and thousands more to be launched for what? For influencers on Instagram?

[@jc4evur661]

@@malcolmcurran6248 Global internet reach can be a major benefit to many things commerce wise. I'll bet they come up with a way to remove them from any images.

[@jc4evur661]

@@malcolmcurran6248 I'll bet they'll come up with a way to remove the streaks from the images since they can't avoid the satellites.

[@zwickygalaxy]

The Mass-Radial Acceleration Discrepancy by measuring the speeds of galaxies in the Coma Cluster originated with Fritz Zwicky, not Vera Rubin, whom I consider a celebrated plagiarist, as using the more challenging methodology of the virial theorem, by relating the total average kinetic energy and the total average potential energy of the galaxies of the Coma Cluster. My father advanced that the virial for a pair of orbiting mass is zero and used the principle of superposition to craft the argument to a system of interacting mass points. Fritz Zwicky then used the position and velocity of measurements to determine the mass of the galaxy cluster. Vera Rubin advanced self promotion for decades after my father's passing by assigning herself forced credit for Dark Matter, while feigning humility as a woman in the sciences not seeking any special recognition. Rubin remains an unwanted barnacle who attached herself to my father's discovery and work without conscience and by deliberate design to assign credit for herself. Rubin, by her own admission, read my father's work regarding the speeds of galaxies, realized the importance, copied the methodology and advanced a campaign with obnoxious trumpeters to assign that forced credit to herself. This is the legacy of Vera Rubin, who left an indelible mark as plagiarist and is an embarrassment to honorable women pioneers in the sciences with proprietary body of work. It is of note that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a vacuous vessel in forced honor to the celebrated plagiarist Rubin by H.R. 3196. It is a building for the Simonyi Survey Telescope. The telescope is the grand noteworthy instrument, not the building. I was denied the opportunity to speak to the Congressional Committee and voice my opposition to the naming but was assured that: "my letter had been read." Not one Committee member had the courtesy to respond. Carnegie has continually advanced the effort to promote Rubin and despite the constant annual lamentation by trumpeters that Rubin was not awarded the Nobel Prize, the naming of an observatory was one of the few options to promote Rubin after her passing, as only living recipients receive the Nobel Prize. This was a concerted effort and pushed through at lighting speed through both Houses of Congress and final signature. It appears to me that this was an alleged fait accompli from the onset and now my father's historical work is connected to this grandstanding plagiarist, Rubin. What a disgrace! Reply

[@samschmit7181]

I don't know how to respond to that.

[@zwickygalaxy]

@@samschmit7181 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope

[@zwickygalaxy]

@@samschmit7181 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope

[@PeterMilanovski]

So we know what it's called but no mention of where in the world is Wally? I think that she forgot where she was LoL 🤣.

[@mariosepulveda7560]

In the North of Chile

[@gigakrait5648]

The observatory is located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter-high mountain in Coquimbo Region, in northern Chile, alongside the existing Gemini South and Southern Astrophysical Research Telescopes. The facility is located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) away by road, in the town of La Serena.

[@ALSea24]

As amazing as this is it is just 0.001 percent of human budget for war and war preparation capable of doing. If there are a real peace treaty for entire humanity for just 10 years, the money save would be enough to build moon base and hundreds more of these on moons and mars.

[@skywatcherca]

When will this beautiful machine come into operation?

[@MrSimonw58]

Well ... let's see if then ... enough talk

[@petefluffy7420]

A good telescope is a fast telescope. I would have thought the opposite.

[@paulbedichek5177]

Only for Southern sky.

[@executivesteps]

The comment in the video is misleading. It’s at 30 degrees south latitude. It should be able to photograph the northern sky as well to about 50 degrees North declination or more.

[@soundtrancecloud5101]

So using the sun as a lens would be what, an F16?

[@tedswift1100]

Great question. I looked up that the Sun bends light about 0.87 arc seconds. That comes out to about f/474,000.

[@executivesteps]

A 4 minute video on this telescope is worthless. There are other longer more informative videos on YT that detail this incredible telescope.

[@BigDaddy-yp4mi]

The Giant Magellan Telescope will by far offer the best science of any telescope present or planned for the next 10 years. It has many, MANY times the resolution of the Webb. IT (Giant Magellan) is the Ferrari of telescopes. The Rubin's observations are planned to the second, for the next decade. It's more like a long haul trucker who can tell if a blade of grass off a particular exit is different than a week ago.

[@simonrano8072]

First you cannot compare resolution with a space telescope that compensate smaller mirror with the benefit of having no atmosphere. Secondly, the ELT that is underconstruction will have a 40 m mirror and .005 arcsec resolution compared to 25 m and .01 arcsec for the Magellan... "By far ... ?" Regardless of their sole resolution performances, they will be both state of the art for their specific purpose.

[@paulbedichek5177]

Giant Magellan not even funded.

[@carlitoskii]

ELT will be way more potent 💪🏻

[@paulbedichek5177]

That is way down the road,much smaller field of view. Don't think the camera is even there yet.

[@robertsonsid]

Different scopes - different capabilities.

[@executivesteps]

@@robertsonsidCorrect. Very different capabilities and mission.

[@RaySqw785]

ELT?

[@kmh032008]

Taking flats must be a bear.

[@MarcelloBranca]

Second!!😂

[@FlattardiansSuck]

Outstanding.