{"id":122007,"date":"2021-04-26T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-new-view-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:23:46","slug":"the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-new-view-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-new-view-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: New view of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-new-view-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next era of astronomy will be defined by a wider view of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The next era of our investigation of the cosmos is about to be kick-started by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a ground-based telescope currently under construction on the El Pen\u00f3n peak of Cerro Pach\u00f3n in northern Chile. The observatory is a federal project run by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The new observatory \u2014 named in honor of astronomer Vera Rubin \u2014 is scheduled to begin operations in October 2023, according to a statement published on the Rubin Observatory website. When it\u2019s up and running, Rubin will allow astronomers to consider some of the universe\u2019s most pressing mysteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next era of astronomy will be defined by a wider view of the cosmos. The next era of our investigation of the cosmos is about to be kick-started by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a ground-based telescope currently under construction on the El Pen\u00f3n peak of Cerro Pach\u00f3n in northern Chile. The observatory is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}