Because at the top of Cerro Pachón Mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to see the night sky, in a new telescope unlike all that has been built before has started its investigation into the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin observatory, named after the astronomer who Discovered of black matter evidence in 1978Should reveal some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million supernovas and millions of solitary objects in the solar system.

“We are absolutely assured of finding something that blows the minds of people,” said Anthony Tyson, chief scientist of the Rubin Observatory. “Something we can’t tell you, because we don’t know it. Something unusual.”

This trendy astronomical transport will be from the 10th anniversary of the observatory Investigation inherited on space and timeWho is slate to start later this year. The first scientific images of the telescope were published to the public today.

The UNPARENTOD investigation in Rubin on the night sky promises to transform our cosmos business. What happened during the first stages of planet’s formation in the solar system? What types of exotic and high energy explosions in the universe? And how is the esoteric force that scientists calls black energy really works?

“Usually, you designed in the telescope or a project to answer one of these questions,” explains Mario Juric, scientist of the data management project for Rubin. “What makes Rubin so powerful is that we can build a machine that provides data to the whole community to be resolved to these questions at the same time.”

The telescope will be created in a high resolution film of a decade of the universe. He will generate approximately 20 data teraoctes for the day, the three -year equivalent in Netflix streaming, accumulating some 60,000 teraoctets by the end of his investigation. During its first year only, Rubin will compile more data than all previous optical observatories combined.

“You must have an almost fully automated software suite behind it, because no human can process or even look at these images,” explains Juric. “The vast majority of pixels that Rubb will collect in the sky will never be seen by human eyes, so we have to build software eyes to go through all these images and identify … unusual objects Mons.”

These unusual objects – asteroids of other solar systems, supermassive black holes devouring stars, high energy explosions without known source – do not contact the secrets on the functioning of the cosmos.

“You build a telescope like this, and it is the equivalent of building four or five telescopes for specific areas,” explains Joric. “But you can do everything at the same time.”

One telescope not like no other

Installed in a 10 -storey building, the Rubin observatory is equipped with an 8.4 -meter primary mirror and a 3,200 megapixel digital camera, the largest ever built. The telescope runs on a specialized frame, taking 30 chords at the exhibitions of the sky before quickly pivoting a new position. Rubin will take around 1,000 images each night, photographing the whole sky of the southern hemisphere in the smallest detail every three to four days.

“It is an incredible engineering piece,” explains Sandrine Thomas, at Project Scientist who Worcs on the optical instruments of the Rubb