First images from the world's largest camera, the Vera C. Rubin observatory

On this occasion we are going to comment on a technology that after more than 20 years of planning is finally active, the largest digital camera ever built pointed its lenses towards the cosmos and the result is images that inaugurate a new era in astronomy.

Dubbed LSST, this camera is not just a powerful lens, it is a technological monster, it has a resolution of 3.2 giga pixels, 2011 image sensors of 16 megapixels each and each pixel is only 10 microns wide.

All of this inside a sealed vacuum chamber that weighs almost 3 tons, more or less. the weight of an SUV truck hanging on top of the Simonyi survey telescope on the summit of Cerro Pachón with an external lens measuring one and a half meters in diameter. Now for the first time that electronic colossus turned its lenses towards the sky and brought a treasure to earth.

Stunning images of the Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula, made up of no less than 678 captures in 7 hours, astronomers were quite excited by the details, layers of gas, filaments, wisps and dust clouds that were previously invisible even to powerful telescopes.

This camera was designed to do something unprecedented, record 15 second exposures every 20 seconds, sweeping the entire sky of the southern hemisphere at regular intervals, in practice it is as if we were creating an eternal timelapse of the universe, monitoring supernovas, asteroids, distant galaxies, all in almost real time.

According to Jacobel Evesik, construction director of the Rubin observatory, these images are just the beginning, “they represent the pinnacle of two decades of dedication and mark the beginning of a new era of discovery, with the telescope active, the promise is to reveal rare cosmic phenomena, find mysterious objects and even rewrite astronomy books.

While the light from stars dead millions of years ago crosses the void and is projected onto those super-sensitive sensors, a question remains in the air. What else is hidden out there waiting for us?

With such a powerful lens trained on the cosmos, we could be on the verge of seeing and understanding the universe like never before.

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