My first produced show in Madison is about the largest digital camera in the world
My first produced show in Madison is about the largest digital camera in the world
Since moving to Madison, I've started to volunteer at 88.9 WORT FM community radio. I work with Brian Standing, the long time host of the Monday 8 O' Clock Buzz. For the moment, I am producing the show and helping Brian put together a show every week.
For my first action of producing for WORT, we talked with the physicist, Keith Bechtol based out of University of Wisconsin. Bechtol works with the the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is home of the largest digital camera in the world built to study the universe and cosmos, and went live this month. As his bio states Bechtol studies "dark energy, dark matter, neutrinos, and multimessenger astrophysics."
Vox writer Bryan Walsh points out the details of the Observatory of the observatory:
Perched 8,660 feet up Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, where the crystal-clear nights provide an exceptionally clear window into space, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory began construction in 2015 with funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Energy. Named for the pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation helped prove the existence of dark matter, the observatory was built to run a single, audacious experiment: the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
The observatory is a global collection of super nerds separated into collaborative groups. Each group will analyze their respected data over 10 years to help answer some of our biggest universe questions: What is the galaxy made up of? What is the full scope of the Milky Way? How does Dark Energy work?
The images are breathtaking — millions of galaxies in each frame, thousands of asteroids; my neurons fully submerged in vibrating wonder. See the official website..
Photo Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory