Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope and Vera C. Rubin Observatory, two research institutions open up new perspectives on the universe. One puts the largest interactive map in the sky online, which has ever been made. The other will be about to reveal his first pictures.
What if we confronted ourselves with the crash of the world and the wars, and have agreed to dream with a lot of height? Two events nowadays will disturb our knowledge and our approach to the universe. Two events that are not only for scientists, but also for the general public.
In the past few days, everyone from his computer can explore the depths of the universe from data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) thanks to the ambitious Cosmos-Web program, which, like never before. Accessible online, this Sky Interactive MapThe largest and most detailed one that has ever been made public is an important turning point in popular scientific and astrophysicists.
It condenses more than 1.5 terrace of data that were recorded by the infrared instruments of the telescope (Nircam and Miri) on part of the sky that corresponds to three full moons. The result is a dizzying cartography of almost 800,000 galaxies, some of which occurred less than 300 million years after the big bang. Direct immersion in the first age of the universe, which can be researched as easily as zooming in a GOOLEMAPS card.
In addition to the aesthetic emotion with regard to these distant spirals, galactic silhouettes that are suspended in the void, the map helps to understand the formation of the first structures of the universe and to replace any galaxy in their environment and to examine the emerging black holes.
The largest digital camera in the world
Another event will take place tomorrow, Monday, June 23 (at 5 p.m.), more than 2,600 meters above sea level in the Chilean Andes. The observatory Vera C. Rubin will reveal his first pictures that were taken up by the world’s largest digital camera with 3,200 megapixels. Thanks to its ability to photograph the entire southern sky every 40 seconds (20 data data every evening), the telescope will produce a real film in the moving universe over a decade.
The first pictures will be comparable in ambition and effect with the first pictures of the Euclid or James Webb World space telescope, but in much larger fields. The ambition also gives dizziness, since it is the mapping of the Milky Way, the examination of dark matter and black energy, observation of rare and temporary phenomena and catalog billions of heavenly objects.