The images of millions of galaxies from the most awaited of video and direct telescopes

The images of millions of galaxies from the most awaited of video and direct telescopes

Millions of galaxiesOf asteroids And stars very far: it is trigger The countdown for First images of the ‘Vera Rubin’ telescopethe most awaited by astronomers around the world. The preliminary images have just been released by the United States National Science Fundration, which with the scientific office of the US Department of Energy has financed the construction of the telescope, which is located on the Chilean Andes. Italy participates in the project with the National Institute of Astrophysics.

This instrument promises to give aunprecedented acceleration at the knowledge of some of the more mysterious aspects of the universelike thedark energythe dark matter and the existence or not of the mysterious Planet nine on the borders of the Solar System.

A international press conference is scheduled at 4.30 pm live streaming from Washington. At the same time, a live broadcast is also scheduled in Italy, organized in Palermo by INAF.

The Vera Rubin telescope on the Chilene Andes, in the background the Milky Way (source: NSF-DOE)

The live broadcast from Washington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df1g-ru8mjm

The live broadcast from Palermo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnsvahtxte4

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