Melbourne, June 23 -- Australian scientists are marking a significant breakthrough in astronomy as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveils its first images from a revolutionary new telescope, according to the University of Melbourne.
The observatory, featuring the world's largest digital camera and a powerful eight-meter mirror, will scan the entire southern sky every few nights, capturing unprecedented detail and enabling real-time detection of cosmic events, a release from the University of Melbourne said on Monday.
The Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time, named for pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin who first measured dark matter in galaxies, will gather around 20 terabytes of data each night, producing an un...