The mirror for the Vera Rubin telescope was cast at the Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In January 2009 I had the privilege of visiting the Lab just after the mirror had been removed from the cleaning fixture where the foam used to form the honeycomb back had been removed. The mirror was sitting on a framework on the floor. It had mounting fixtures attached to the back to mount it in the polishing jig and I crawled under it for some pictures. I have been following the progress to First Light ever since. So exciting.
@@banditapattanaik3179 The rest of the entire facility had to be built as well, and I wouldn't dare guess how long polishing would take of this level of precision.
I get the impression she was okay with the unknown as well, though I know little about her. Did she invent some mysterious dark matter to explain her observations? Maybe I'm wrong. Or ignorant. In any case, I like learning about women who shaped science without needing all the publicity that men (like Tycho Brahe) were after. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge, the goal of science. Women have a unique place in the history of science to serve as role models for that ethic. They were never going to receive credit in their lifetimes, but they pursued knowledge anyway, because knowledge was important and meaningful. I'm a man, and one of my two advisors in grad school was active in the organization Women in Science. That fact alone (and not any coaxing on her part) opened my eyes to the real contributions made by women, and the need for more women as peers. Not just because of their contributions to the knowledge base in science, but as role models for the search for knowledge as its own reward.
@@beenaplumber8379 The pitting of groups of people against each other by dividing them and measuring "men's contribution to science" and "women's contributions to science" is counterproductive. Most real scientists are interested in knowledge, they do not care about the sex (age, hair density or color,...) of the person who made a discovery. OTOH, politicians just love dividing us.
Dark matter is dilated mass. Mass that is dilated is smeared through spacetime relative to an outside observer. It's the phenomenon behind the phrase "mass becomes infinite at the speed of light". A graph illustrates its squared nature, dilation increases at an exponential rate the closer you get to the speed of light. A time dilation graph illustrates the same phenomenon, it's not just time that gets dilated. It has been accepted for a long time that dilation is occurring in the centers of very high mass stars and the overwhelming majority of galaxy centers. The mass at the center of our own galaxy is dilated. This means that there is no valid XYZ coordinate we can attribute to it, you can't point your finger at something that is smeared through spacetime. In other words that mass is all around us. Dilation does not occur in galaxies with low mass centers because they do not have enough mass to achieve relativistic velocities. It has been confirmed in 6 very low mass galaxies including NGC 1052-DF2 and DF4 to have no dark matter, in other words they have normal rotation rates. All binary stars have normal rotation rates for the same reason.
@@tonywells6990 Dilation is a known fundamental phenomenon. It's not my math that predicts it in the centers of very high mass stars and the majority of galaxy centers, it's been accepted for a long, long time. There is now 3 videos on UA-cam saying what I am saying, over a thousand people agree with me. It's not a matter of opinion, dark matter is dilated mass. The fact that very low mass galaxies, all planets and all binary stars have normal rotation rates is proof.
Even if I had no interest in astronomy I’d still watch these videos. The enthusiasm is just so infectious. This is what is needed in an educator. Someone who is passionate and can convey that to an audience.
I visited the Mirror Lab a few times during my undergrad at UA, and I believe the last time I was there, the mirror was basically done and covered with that blue stuff. Small world!
As a Polynesian who lives in Hilo, studied astronomy and physics, and a huge fan of science this makes me equally happy and sad. Congratulations Chile and wider science community. Our loss in Hilo, Hawaii
My uncle is John Walley. He ground NASA grade optics for his own use starting in the 60's. He also took some of the first home shots of Pluto. One of the finest home astronomers ever.
A modern Monty Python skit: "Why does your phone keep going off?!?" "Oh, that's Vera." "She seems a little... uh, psychotic." "She's a telescope." "Yes. Well, I guess she's not the one that's psychotic then."
"pip install kitten" has to be the best alternate cat name I've ever heard! PS: I was thinking, "You know it's hot in the UK when Dr. Becky is wearing a ponytail!" 😀
Congratulations on your beautiful kitten! Her fur looks so thick and plushy! I understand air-conditioners are not that commonplace in the UK, but with the climate continually heating up, you're probably going to need to invest in one.
Not just the amount of pixels, the way bigger lens compared to an iPhone, the bigger (in size) sensor and lens all account for a much better picture. Even if it only had the 12 megapixels, the rest would make it a much better picture.
Becky you are an amazing woman and a great scientist. You should have some videos with the other people from other channels,so you can get more views. This is what all other channels do, they work together or they have some guests in their videos to get more viewers .I think more people should see your very informative channel. Thanks for all your efforts.👍🤩👏
Inspired comparison between Euclid and Rubin. So clear! This and the ever-present, overwhelming enthusiasm is why I l enjoy your updates so much. Thank you.
I know Dr Becky isn't the only good astrophysicist or science communicator, but that is no reason not to be a completely smitten fan of Prof. Smethurst. You are the best. I am one of those fans who actually does know calculus but never finished their degree. I appreciate science educators like Dr Becky who actually do show us the equations. Even if we can't solve the equations, at least we get to see them, and learn what the pieces of the equations mean.
I've been looking forward to this new generation of observatories since I became interested in astronomy more than 10 years ago. JWST, Vera Rubin, ELT, and Giant Magellan (not to mention a series of smaller planned space observatories) all coming online within a few years of each other are making sure we have an exciting next couple of decades in astronomy. Hoping 30-Meter can find another northern hemisphere location and get started soon.
They have a few 10-99 galaxies with no dark matter formed from interstellar gas left behind when two galaxies passed through each other. That eliminates a change in gravity and requires localizable matter.
About loving KiwiCo's GearBox: As some Mensa friends say, it's *never* too late to have a happy childhood. They love being grandparents for the guilt-free play times. They're also members of the SCA, Society For Creative Anachronisms She's a crack archer, along with their son. BTW, I'm firmly convinced parents get those sorts of interesting things so THEY can play with them though they blame it on the kids.
So... a friend and I were having a discussion about Andromeda. It's some 2.5 million light years away from us, so we're seeing the galaxy in the location it was in 2.5 million years ago. From that light we can tell it's headed more or less towards us at 60 miles per second. Or WAS, 2.5 million years ago! Assuming that it's still traveling that fast or faster right now, how different would our view of it be if we could somehow see it as it existed "in our now?" Always enjoy your videos! informative and enlightening!
Tbh I think it would just be slightly bigger in the sky. The exciting thing is to think about it in 4 billion years when the collision is close and we'd have it across the night sky in all its glory!
Thanks so much for another absolutely marvelous, wonderful update. Based on what you said can’t wait what “Unknown of Unknowns” Vera throws up and throws up new questions on questions 😊. Thank you once again 🙏.
To quote the Boondocks "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." "There are known knowns and there are known unknowns. There are also unknown unknowns... things we don't know that we don't know."
@@gbcb8853Slavoj Zizek does a good exploration of this. His is in relation to Donald Rumsfeld, but basically the unknown knowns are the deeply ingrained assumptions that we bring into any critical thinking. So deep that we are not aware of them ourselves.
The good news is the data should be highly compressible, even losslessly, and the process for compressing it should be largely the same as the process for identifying changes of interest.
Fun space video. Enjoyed it. Thank you. Be sure and do another one when the Rubin has pictures. Love to see them. My peregrine falcon, Red Shift, is still breaking land speed records at 209mph. Ha, not a record but she’s still got it. Adieu.
As much of a leap forward as JWST was over Hubble.... I WOULD LOVE to see the 'Bigger version' (same foldy mirror tech as JWST) - the 15 Metre Luvoir be up and observing before I head for my 'Big sleep'... Further, clearer, more detailed, and, MORE WONDERS! 🤞😏 😎🇬🇧
it looks absolutely incredible, i hope there will be a documentery about it, i watched the jwst doc and that was really interesting, side note i have your books on audible and i love hem
Forget about space and black holes dr becky, love your blue eyes, lots of hugs from California with all due respect, wish you the best, love your videos
I dunno if it's the vanilla blueberry muffin and iced coffee I'm enjoying, or how extra fabulous Dr. Becky looks today, or the amazing information she just loaded our minds with, or seeing the adorable Pippin the kitten, or all of the above, but I totally got chills of happiness watching this video
28 degrees? It’s 41 here today, predicted to be the same for next week. When I lived in the UK, 60ish years ago, 28 degrees would have been big headline news. Yet there are still people who say the climate isn’t warming.
It's unseasonably cool in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. I actually opened my windows and doors. 21⁰C right now. It's been in the low 30s at night and near 40 during the day which is normal.
Yes, the UK is far too cold for tropical species like _homo sapiens._ But it would be much worse were it not for the Gulf Stream exporting warmth from the New World to northern Europe. Scotland is at about the same latitude as Hudson Bay, which is basically uninhabitable, except by polar bears. The warming trend is saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Ref: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62114-0 (see Fig. 2).
27c...82f *giggles in Texan* my aircon is set at a nice cool 77f The high temp this week here was 104f with heat index values up around 108f. but on the plus side the evening skies have been a little clearer since all that Sahara dust flew off.
Another great video. But I feel that you should have mentioned how unique the optics are. A primary and tertiary mirror made as one unit is incredible.
Great video, but I think I'm most impressed by the revelation that you don't seem to be using a teleprompter at all. I can't say five sentences without losing my place and wandering off. Bravo.
I love that the images have been uploaded to Zooniverse and was super excited getting the email! I've been doing little projects with them when I can for a few years now. Looking forward to the future 🖤
Vera Rubin. Wow! what a heroine, I'm so happy they named a telescope after her, she had such a tremendous influence on our scientific understanding of Dark Matter. Sadly, all too easily overlooked in the overpopulated masculine world of popular science. Very similar to Rosalind Franklin. Will this device be comparing the *centrifugal* effect of distant stars in a wobbly motion around there galactic barycentres? _Opps! I forgot, we don't mention inertia nowadays...do we Dr Becky?_ 😂
Not so overlooked these days - shame key academics such as Kent Ford are not so acknowledged for their own contribution to this discovery. And actually not similar to Rosalind Franklin. They had different reasons for their discoveries or insights being obscured.
Good point. Maybe it should be called the Rubin-Ford Telescope, as they both received a medal for their collaborative work. Unlike Rosalind Franklin who received nothing from Watson and Crick, until after her passing. When the Swedish Academy said it was too late to make honorary awards. I was only trying to make a point of how the inertial affects in orbital motion are overlooked in some peculiar tidal explanations, but thanks for the reply.
I tried to put the numbers together considering Euclid's FoV of 0.57 square degrees and that it will only look at 1/3 of the sky and that it images 20 fields per day. Then, considering that a half of the hemisphere is looking away from the sun, it has to image the same area each 10-20 days. So the cadence of imaging the same are will be constant, but I'd argue that one can get transients using Euclid and get better photometry than LSST on top of that, albeit with 3x slower sampling rate.
I love the graphic around 11:28, showing wavelengths and atmospheric absorption, and where observatories operate in that spectrum. Is that graphic available in a PDF, or other source suitable for printing. Would make a great poster.
When I was young(8 years old or less) people talked excitedly, in retrospect about people had split the atom (we are talking of individuals randomly, not really a national conversation. But they said people had split the atom, So I had to imagine, and I imagined one guy holding the atom really steady, whilst the other guy, using a large red axe 🪓 really really sharpened. And I guess it really beats William Tell, but unfortunately nobody has written an overture about splitting the atom.
Another cat video with some side mentions of telescopes, galaxies and dark matter! (sorry, Dr Becky, I'm joking, of course, but you knew this would happen once Pip entered the picture, figuratively and literally speaking 😻)
Looking forward to the new surprises that Rubin will discover, along side with its sensors and its amazing camera, it will be great for use science fans
The mirror for the Vera Rubin telescope was cast at the Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In January 2009 I had the privilege of visiting the Lab just after the mirror had been removed from the cleaning fixture where the foam used to form the honeycomb back had been removed. The mirror was sitting on a framework on the floor. It had mounting fixtures attached to the back to mount it in the polishing jig and I crawled under it for some pictures. I have been following the progress to First Light ever since. So exciting.
Great opportunity.
Must be very pleasing to be allowed so near to something so priceless!
Mind my ignorance but did it take 15 years for the mirror to be used in a telescope after it was cast?
@@banditapattanaik3179 The rest of the entire facility had to be built as well, and I wouldn't dare guess how long polishing would take of this level of precision.
@@PWNHUB Oh! That explains it. I thought the process of building would be faster.
Vera Rubin's accomplishments were exceptional. So happy she receives this level of recognition.
I get the impression she was okay with the unknown as well, though I know little about her. Did she invent some mysterious dark matter to explain her observations? Maybe I'm wrong. Or ignorant. In any case, I like learning about women who shaped science without needing all the publicity that men (like Tycho Brahe) were after. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge, the goal of science. Women have a unique place in the history of science to serve as role models for that ethic. They were never going to receive credit in their lifetimes, but they pursued knowledge anyway, because knowledge was important and meaningful.
I'm a man, and one of my two advisors in grad school was active in the organization Women in Science. That fact alone (and not any coaxing on her part) opened my eyes to the real contributions made by women, and the need for more women as peers. Not just because of their contributions to the knowledge base in science, but as role models for the search for knowledge as its own reward.
@@beenaplumber8379 The pitting of groups of people against each other by dividing them and measuring "men's contribution to science" and "women's contributions to science" is counterproductive. Most real scientists are interested in knowledge, they do not care about the sex (age, hair density or color,...) of the person who made a discovery.
OTOH, politicians just love dividing us.
Dark matter is dilated mass. Mass that is dilated is smeared through spacetime relative to an outside observer. It's the phenomenon behind the phrase "mass becomes infinite at the speed of light". A graph illustrates its squared nature, dilation increases at an exponential rate the closer you get to the speed of light. A time dilation graph illustrates the same phenomenon, it's not just time that gets dilated.
It has been accepted for a long time that dilation is occurring in the centers of very high mass stars and the overwhelming majority of galaxy centers.
The mass at the center of our own galaxy is dilated. This means that there is no valid XYZ coordinate we can attribute to it, you can't point your finger at something that is smeared through spacetime. In other words that mass is all around us.
Dilation does not occur in galaxies with low mass centers because they do not have enough mass to achieve relativistic velocities. It has been confirmed in 6 very low mass galaxies including NGC 1052-DF2 and DF4 to have no dark matter, in other words they have normal rotation rates. All binary stars have normal rotation rates for the same reason.
@@shawns0762 None of that makes any sense.
@@tonywells6990 Dilation is a known fundamental phenomenon. It's not my math that predicts it in the centers of very high mass stars and the majority of galaxy centers, it's been accepted for a long, long time.
There is now 3 videos on UA-cam saying what I am saying, over a thousand people agree with me. It's not a matter of opinion, dark matter is dilated mass. The fact that very low mass galaxies, all planets and all binary stars have normal rotation rates is proof.
Even if I had no interest in astronomy I’d still watch these videos. The enthusiasm is just so infectious. This is what is needed in an educator. Someone who is passionate and can convey that to an audience.
That's actually how she always is definitely geeks out I absolutely love it ❤
Also kittens
Pippin is so adorable! Thanks for letting us see her.
So cute!
I've walked on the big mirror many times! I was on the polishing team at the Mirror Lab in Tucson when it was made.
So cool!
Is that where you saw yourself growing up? 😂
I visited the Mirror Lab a few times during my undergrad at UA, and I believe the last time I was there, the mirror was basically done and covered with that blue stuff. Small world!
As a Polynesian who lives in Hilo, studied astronomy and physics, and a huge fan of science this makes me equally happy and sad.
Congratulations Chile and wider science community. Our loss in Hilo, Hawaii
Pip install kitten. That one got me!
My uncle is John Walley. He ground NASA grade optics for his own use starting in the 60's. He also took some of the first home shots of Pluto. One of the finest home astronomers ever.
Im in the picture at 2:47!! So excited for this thing to come online :)
Cool! Which one are you? ;)
OMG! Pippin is stinking cute! Congratulations! 🥰
A modern Monty Python skit:
"Why does your phone keep going off?!?"
"Oh, that's Vera."
"She seems a little... uh, psychotic."
"She's a telescope."
"Yes. Well, I guess she's not the one that's psychotic then."
That got a good laugh outta me!
Hilarious!
"pip install kitten" has to be the best alternate cat name I've ever heard!
PS: I was thinking, "You know it's hot in the UK when Dr. Becky is wearing a ponytail!" 😀
So wonderfully nerdy!
Kitten!!!❤ Welcome Pip!
OMG . We had a Russian Blue we named Pippin . Best cat in the world . Your Pippin is beautiful . Keep posting updates on her .
Came for the astrophysics, stayed to see if the kitten would put in another appearance.
Congratulations on your beautiful kitten! Her fur looks so thick and plushy!
I understand air-conditioners are not that commonplace in the UK, but with the climate continually heating up, you're probably going to need to invest in one.
OMG Pip is adorable! With Rubin and Euclid working together to map the universe we should get some phenomenal data.
Awesome vid. Thank you.
And the cat can keep pushing the results onto the floor.
Not just the amount of pixels, the way bigger lens compared to an iPhone, the bigger (in size) sensor and lens all account for a much better picture. Even if it only had the 12 megapixels, the rest would make it a much better picture.
All true!
Technically, it's a mirror, not a lens, but "aperture" describes both.
@@jeffbenton6183 it also has a 1.55m lens in the camera.
Pippin is so adorable! Can't wait for the Vera Rubin Observatory to come online, exciting times ahead.
Ooh I've been waiting for this video! Vera Rubin Observatory is so cool
Becky you are an amazing woman and a great scientist. You should have some videos with the other people from other channels,so you can get more views. This is what all other channels do, they work together or they have some guests in their videos to get more viewers .I think more people should see your very informative channel. Thanks for all your efforts.👍🤩👏
Can't help being effected by your enthusiasm. What an amazing and ambitious project. Thanks for telling us all about it.
Go VERA, GO!
Inspired comparison between Euclid and Rubin. So clear! This and the ever-present, overwhelming enthusiasm is why I l enjoy your updates so much. Thank you.
Thank you Dr. Becky for this informative update on the Vera Rubin Observatory! Plus I like your new kitten Pippin!
I enjoyed the information about the Vera Rubin Observatory, but I also loved the cat videos of your new kitten.
Pip is the new star - How cute is that🥰
Cannot wait to see what we learn from this new telescope. 🙂
Thank you for the update You made it very easy to understand. Im cannot wait for Rubin and your explanation of its pictures.
This video makes me so proud to be apart of the Rubin collaboration. Thank you Dr.Becky!
I know Dr Becky isn't the only good astrophysicist or science communicator, but that is no reason not to be a completely smitten fan of Prof. Smethurst. You are the best. I am one of those fans who actually does know calculus but never finished their degree. I appreciate science educators like Dr Becky who actually do show us the equations. Even if we can't solve the equations, at least we get to see them, and learn what the pieces of the equations mean.
Love the dig at particle physicist @5:48 😂
I've been looking forward to this new generation of observatories since I became interested in astronomy more than 10 years ago. JWST, Vera Rubin, ELT, and Giant Magellan (not to mention a series of smaller planned space observatories) all coming online within a few years of each other are making sure we have an exciting next couple of decades in astronomy. Hoping 30-Meter can find another northern hemisphere location and get started soon.
13:20 pip install kitten!! I love it, such a nerdy reference!
Also fool of a Took! All the nerdy references!
oouuw such a cute kitty! Welcome Pippin!
They have a few 10-99 galaxies with no dark matter formed from interstellar gas left behind when two galaxies passed through each other. That eliminates a change in gravity and requires localizable matter.
That's the bullet cluster, right? Or did you mean something else?
I hope that Pip becomes part of your team, and helps out on future videos. She's adorable!
Thanks as always. 28 degrees is a nice winters day here QLD Australia, but we whinge about the cold at 19. Looking forward to the next upload.
About loving KiwiCo's GearBox: As some Mensa friends say, it's *never* too late to have a happy childhood. They love being grandparents for the guilt-free play times. They're also members of the SCA, Society For Creative Anachronisms She's a crack archer, along with their son. BTW, I'm firmly convinced parents get those sorts of interesting things so THEY can play with them though they blame it on the kids.
Thanks
Thanks for covering our incredible facility!
Pip is adorable congrats on the new kitty :)
Dr. Becky, your little kitten is adorable!❤
Congratulations on Pippin, she is adorable. Cats are Pawsome!
So... a friend and I were having a discussion about Andromeda. It's some 2.5 million light years away from us, so we're seeing the galaxy in the location it was in 2.5 million years ago. From that light we can tell it's headed more or less towards us at 60 miles per second. Or WAS, 2.5 million years ago! Assuming that it's still traveling that fast or faster right now, how different would our view of it be if we could somehow see it as it existed "in our now?" Always enjoy your videos! informative and enlightening!
Tbh I think it would just be slightly bigger in the sky. The exciting thing is to think about it in 4 billion years when the collision is close and we'd have it across the night sky in all its glory!
Thanks so much for another absolutely marvelous, wonderful update. Based on what you said can’t wait what “Unknown of Unknowns” Vera throws up and throws up new questions on questions 😊. Thank you once again 🙏.
To quote the Boondocks "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." "There are known knowns and there are known unknowns. There are also unknown unknowns... things we don't know that we don't know."
Yes, but what is an unknown known?
@@gbcb8853Slavoj Zizek does a good exploration of this. His is in relation to Donald Rumsfeld, but basically the unknown knowns are the deeply ingrained assumptions that we bring into any critical thinking. So deep that we are not aware of them ourselves.
why the moon looks huge on the horizon......
@@jacquespoulemer like a big pizza pie?
@@gbcb8853 Attsa More, sounds like a word from the land of the sun's origin. hehehe. Tinga linga ling🎶🎑
I first learned about Vera Rubin and her research as a kid watching PBS's The Astronomers in 1991! And that's a cute kitty!
The good news is the data should be highly compressible, even losslessly, and the process for compressing it should be largely the same as the process for identifying changes of interest.
Fun space video. Enjoyed it. Thank you. Be sure and do another one when the Rubin has pictures. Love to see them. My peregrine falcon, Red Shift, is still breaking land speed records at 209mph. Ha, not a record but she’s still got it. Adieu.
The transformation of astronomy that Vera Rubin, the Roman Space Telescope, JWST, etc. will create is just astounding to think of.
As much of a leap forward as JWST was over Hubble.... I WOULD LOVE to see the 'Bigger version' (same foldy mirror tech as JWST) - the 15 Metre Luvoir be up and observing before I head for my 'Big sleep'... Further, clearer, more detailed, and, MORE WONDERS! 🤞😏 😎🇬🇧
ELT in near future... Big space telescopes are just ideas only...
it looks absolutely incredible, i hope there will be a documentery about it, i watched the jwst doc and that was really interesting, side note i have your books on audible and i love hem
Thanks a bunch for all the info, dr. Becky! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I think Pippin should have her own UA-cam channel!❤😂
Great presentation, Dr. Becky! Incredibly fascinating even for a semi-literate, non-geek colonial.
13.46 is GOLD! Thank you, so much!
Forget about space and black holes dr becky, love your blue eyes, lots of hugs from California with all due respect, wish you the best, love your videos
Your enthusiasm is absolutely catching!
Versidium's making moves. Glad to be part of it!
Thanks to Dr. Becky, my two grand nephews love their Kiwi Co. boxes.
I'm starting my High School journey into astrophysics and love your channel :)
I dunno if it's the vanilla blueberry muffin and iced coffee I'm enjoying, or how extra fabulous Dr. Becky looks today, or the amazing information she just loaded our minds with, or seeing the adorable Pippin the kitten, or all of the above, but I totally got chills of happiness watching this video
28 degrees? It’s 41 here today, predicted to be the same for next week. When I lived in the UK, 60ish years ago, 28 degrees would have been big headline news. Yet there are still people who say the climate isn’t warming.
It's unseasonably cool in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. I actually opened my windows and doors. 21⁰C right now. It's been in the low 30s at night and near 40 during the day which is normal.
Yes, the UK is far too cold for tropical species like _homo sapiens._ But it would be much worse were it not for the Gulf Stream exporting warmth from the New World to northern Europe. Scotland is at about the same latitude as Hudson Bay, which is basically uninhabitable, except by polar bears. The warming trend is saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Ref: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62114-0 (see Fig. 2).
Welcome aboard, Pip! Hmmm... The Dr.Becky and Pip Show! The possibilities for videos have just CUBED in number! 🤣
27c...82f *giggles in Texan* my aircon is set at a nice cool 77f
The high temp this week here was 104f with heat index values up around 108f. but on the plus side the evening skies have been a little clearer since all that Sahara dust flew off.
Another great video. But I feel that you should have mentioned how unique the optics are. A primary and tertiary mirror made as one unit is incredible.
Versidium's innovation is unmatched. Eye on the prize!
I’ve never been so excited about a telescope.
Great video, but I think I'm most impressed by the revelation that you don't seem to be using a teleprompter at all. I can't say five sentences without losing my place and wandering off. Bravo.
I love that the images have been uploaded to Zooniverse and was super excited getting the email! I've been doing little projects with them when I can for a few years now. Looking forward to the future 🖤
Pip is adorable! A new guest star in the blooper reels. ❤
Just watched the entire video. Great job Dr. Becky. Still enjoying your content from Kenya. ❤
Vera Rubin. Wow! what a heroine, I'm so happy they named a telescope after her, she had such a tremendous influence on our scientific understanding of Dark Matter. Sadly, all too easily overlooked in the overpopulated masculine world of popular science. Very similar to Rosalind Franklin.
Will this device be comparing the *centrifugal* effect of distant stars in a wobbly motion around there galactic barycentres? _Opps! I forgot, we don't mention inertia nowadays...do we Dr Becky?_ 😂
Not so overlooked these days - shame key academics such as Kent Ford are not so acknowledged for their own contribution to this discovery. And actually not similar to Rosalind Franklin. They had different reasons for their discoveries or insights being obscured.
Good point. Maybe it should be called the Rubin-Ford Telescope, as they both received a medal for their collaborative work. Unlike Rosalind Franklin who received nothing from Watson and Crick, until after her passing. When the Swedish Academy said it was too late to make honorary awards.
I was only trying to make a point of how the inertial affects in orbital motion are overlooked in some peculiar tidal explanations, but thanks for the reply.
Can't currently think of a better tribute to Vera Rubin than that observatory.
can't wait for first light from this thing!
I have been counting the days until first light for so many years that it's hard to believe we are finally here. Lfg!
I liked the lecture and the explanation. Thanks 🙏
An optically relevant mirror that big is just this side of miraculous.
I tried to put the numbers together considering Euclid's FoV of 0.57 square degrees and that it will only look at 1/3 of the sky and that it images 20 fields per day. Then, considering that a half of the hemisphere is looking away from the sun, it has to image the same area each 10-20 days. So the cadence of imaging the same are will be constant, but I'd argue that one can get transients using Euclid and get better photometry than LSST on top of that, albeit with 3x slower sampling rate.
Versidium's strategy is on point. Big potential!
My new FAVOURITE 😍 channel
"Pippin" is the protagonist in Charles Dickens', "Great Expectations."
Well, Philip "Pip" Pirrip, not Pippin but close enough 😁
Ok for real, the website where you classify the galaxies is so super awesome and if you discover something, they could CREDIT you
I love the graphic around 11:28, showing wavelengths and atmospheric absorption, and where observatories operate in that spectrum. Is that graphic available in a PDF, or other source suitable for printing. Would make a great poster.
Pip is so adorable! Congratulations.
Now this is exciting. I WILL be following. 😮😮😮😮😮
Jeez no wonder your lighting looks so good lately, you're under a skylight!
I’m so excited! New telescope, new discoveries!
beginning of the programm in 8 monthes ! i can t wait
vematum's impact on gaming could be revolutionary. Glad to be in early!
Thanks for the literal "Heads up!"
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Thank you for another really very interesting and important release!
When I was young(8 years old or less) people talked excitedly, in retrospect about people had split the atom (we are talking of individuals randomly, not really a national conversation.
But they said people had split the atom,
So I had to imagine, and I imagined one guy holding the atom really steady, whilst the other guy, using a large red axe 🪓 really really sharpened.
And I guess it really beats William Tell, but unfortunately nobody has written an overture about splitting the atom.
Versidium hype is building. Exciting times ahead!
Weekly Pippin content needed at the end of each video!
Pip's coat looks soooo soft!
Young Pip is surely no fool of a Took.
Another cat video with some side mentions of telescopes, galaxies and dark matter! (sorry, Dr Becky, I'm joking, of course, but you knew this would happen once Pip entered the picture, figuratively and literally speaking 😻)
Sorry! 😲 You mean there was actually some scientific stuff in the video? Where? I must have missed it, I did see a cat though.
You have put a new table in your room ) Great color choice )
Vematum's making waves, can't ignore it!
Looking forward to the new surprises that Rubin will discover, along side with its sensors and its amazing camera, it will be great for use science fans