The largest digital camera ever built has taken its first pictures of the universe. These colourful photos show distant stars, galaxies, and bright space clouds called nebulas. The images were captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which sits on a mountain in Chile.
The observatory is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Over the next 10 years, it will explore the skies above the Southern Hemisphere, helping scientists learn more about space. Its first images include the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas, both located thousands of light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 9.4 trillion kilometres.
Another picture shows the Virgo Cluster, a group of galaxies, including two bright blue spirals. The camera, one of the most powerful ever made, will try to take pictures of 20 billion galaxies in total.
The observatory is named after Vera Rubin, a scientist who helped uncover clues about dark matter, a mysterious force in the universe. Scientists also hope to use this new camera to learn more about dark energy, another puzzling force in space.
That is one fit cat. I dont think i could walk that far. Let a lone a cat!!!
long way for a cat to travel
it was really good and interesting I loved it good job
That’s a long way.
The owners must’ve been scared to lose their cat but in the end the cat was found by a kind person who looked after the cat after walking 1448 km.
Thats pretty amazing! Very fit cat. Surely it didn’t do it all on paw! That’s crazy!
a least the cat got home
That cat must love their family so much to travel 1448 km, by paw!
I want that cat NOW!!!!!!!!
wish i could travel that far
wow cat strong
traveled so long!
they are so cute