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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in June 2025 — capturing roughly 10 million galaxies and spotting more than 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in about ten hours of looking.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory (2025)

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Perched on Cerro Pachón in Chile with an 8.4-metre mirror and the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin is designed to photograph the entire southern sky every few nights for ten years. That time-lapse of the universe — the Legacy Survey of Space and Time — should catalogue billions of galaxies and reveal anything that moves or flickers.

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Vera C. Rubin Gözlemevi ilk görüntülerini Haziran 2025'te yayımladı — yaklaşık 10 milyon galaksiyi kaydetti ve yaklaşık on saatlik gözlemde 2.000'den fazla daha önce bilinmeyen asteroit buldu.
Vera C. Rubin Gözlemevi (2025)

Şili'de Cerro Pachón'da, 8,4 metrelik aynası ve yapılmış en büyük dijital kamerasıyla konumlanan Rubin, on yıl boyunca tüm güney gökyüzünü birkaç gecede bir fotoğraflamak üzere tasarlandı. Evrenin bu ağır çekimi — Uzay ve Zamanın Kalıt Taraması — milyarlarca galaksiyi kataloglayacak ve hareket eden ya da yanıp sönen her şeyi ortaya çıkaracak.

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