Comments on: The new Rubin telescope releases its first images https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-new-rubin-telescope-releases-its-first-images/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-new-rubin-telescope-releases-its-first-images/#comment-1602064 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:49:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115031#comment-1602064 First Data from Vera Rubin Observatory (June 23, 2025)
Brian Keating interviews Professor Mario Juric
https://youtu.be/GMtJXbV0fHk
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]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-new-rubin-telescope-releases-its-first-images/#comment-1601941 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:03:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115031#comment-1601941 Rather Van Gogh-ish I’d say.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-new-rubin-telescope-releases-its-first-images/#comment-1601920 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:57:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115031#comment-1601920 In reply to Mark Sizer.

Mark Sizer: I should have noted that this claim about asteroids is a bit of blarney. Rubin was primarily designed to study the intergalactic medium. Any asteroids it finds will be a bonus.

]]> By: Mark Sizer https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-new-rubin-telescope-releases-its-first-images/#comment-1601919 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:22:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115031#comment-1601919 spotting far more asteroids than ever before

I suppose since asteroids show up as a blinking single-pixel between images they don’t make a good PR photo. But still, if the solar system is its focus, there must be something closer than 50 million light years away to show off.

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