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Visitando el Observatorio #VeraRubin Parte 3

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Search For Life

Aloha kākou, Searching the heavens for intelligent life, or just life in general. What would life be like on another world? Would such life have any intelligence? How would we define what intelligent alien life is? How do we define intelligence amongst ourselves? I guess those questions are best left to philosophers and diplomats. Meanwhile, NASA will be continuing searching for life in the…

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First light from the Vera C Rubin Observatory

This image combines 678 images taken by the Vera C Rubin Observatory over seven hours. Combining many images in this way reveals otherwise faint or invisible details, such as the clouds of gas and dust of the Trifid nebula (top) and the Lagoon nebula, thousands of light-years from Earth.

This new observatory is named in honor of trailblazing astronomer Vera C Rubin, who found conclusive evidence of vast quantities of invisible material known as dark matter.

Understanding the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and other large-scale cosmic mysteries is a central focus of the new observatory's mission. Dark energy is the mysterious and colossally powerful force that appears to be pushing galaxies away from each other at an accelerating rate. Although dark matter and dark energy collectively comprise 95% of the Universe, their properties remain unknown.

More at the official Rubin Observatory site: X

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I am not a scientist or researcher and it would be a waste of precious housing that I don't need but I wanna live in a house next to Lick Observatory so bad.

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World's observatories.

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