The powerful new telescope located at the new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile and hosts the most powerful digital camera in the world, promises to transform our understanding of the universe by publishing its first impressive images of the dark depths of the universe.

The striking photo he took shows Huge colorful clouds of gas and dust to be swirling in an area of ​​stars formation, 9,000 years of light away from the earth.

If there is a ninth planet In our solar system, scientists say that this telescope will detect it in its first year of operation. In addition, it should detect murderous asteroids at a distance from the Earth, map our galaxy and answer critical questions about dark matter, the mysterious substance that is most of our universe.

“Personally, I have been working in this direction for about 25 years. For decades we have wanted to build this amazing facility and do such research, “says Professor Kathryn Heimans, a royal astronomer in Scotland.

The United Kingdom is a key partner in research and will host data centers for the processing of these extremely detailed snapshots as the telescope sweeps the sky by capturing everything in its passage.

The new Observatory in Chile is located in Cerro Pachón, a mountain in the Chilean Andes. Star light is “enough” for navigation, explains scientist Elana Urbach in BBC. One of the big goals of the observatory, he adds, is to ‘Understand the History of the Universe’, Which means that they will be able to see dinner galaxies or supernova explosions that occurred “billions of years ago”.

“Well, we really need very sharp images,” he said.

The precision of the telescope is achieved through the unique design of three mirrors. The light enters the telescope from the night sky, hits the main mirror (8.4 meters in diameter), reflected in the secondary mirror (3.4 meters) and back in a third mirror (4.8 meters) before entering its camera. The mirrors should be kept in perfect state since even a dust dot could alter the quality of the image.

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The camera in the telescope will repeatedly record the night sky for ten years, every three days, for a inheritance research of space and time.

With dimensions of 1.65m x 3m, weighs 2,800 kg and provides a wide field of view.

It will record an image of about 40 seconds, for about 8-12 hours a night thanks to the rapid reposition of the moving dome and the base of the telescope. It has 3,200 Megapixel (67 times more than a iPhone 16 Pro camera).

Research will focus on four areas: mapping of changes in heaven or transient objects, the formation of the galaxy, the mapping of the solar system and an understanding of dark matter or how the universe was formed.

But his greatest power lies in its stability. He will research the same areas over and over again and whenever a change will detect, he will alert scientists.

In addition, the telescope has the ability to detect dangerous objects that suddenly wander near Earth, including asteroids such as the YR4 while at the same time giving a long -term mystery about the existence of the ninth planet of our solar system.