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English: The Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (AuxTel), with its open dome and deep red interior, looks to be inhabiting a little rocky planet floating through the expansive Milky Way galaxy in this image taken at Cerro Pachón in Chile. But in fact this image was created using a 360-degree panorama and composed into a photosphere image. The green and red light circling the horizon of the ‘planet’ is airglow, an atmospheric phenomenon caused when trace particles and gasses in the atmosphere become electrically charged or ionized. Their atoms emit light at various wavelengths when they recombine at night and faintly glow. The dark dust trails and red star-forming regions intertwined throughout the Milky Way are also prominently featured in this surreal view of the cosmos. Off in the distance, on the lower leftside of the ‘planet’, the geometric dome of Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, can be seen. Rubin Observatory is a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy (DOE) and is currently under construction. Once completed, Rubin will be operated jointly by NSF’s NOIRLab and DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It will conduct an unprecedented, decade-long survey called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) that will revolutionize the field of astronomy and what we know about the Universe. A fulldome version of this image can be viewed here, and a 360-degree panorama version can be found here. This photo was taken as part of the NOIRLab 2022 Photo Expedition to all the NOIRLab sites. Petr Horálek, the photographer, is a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador.
Español: En esta imagen tomada en Cerro Pachón (Chile) se puede ver al Telescopio Auxiliar de Rubin (AuxTel), con su cúpula abierta y su interior de color rojo intenso, y parece habitar un pequeño planeta rocoso que flota por la inmensa galaxia de la Vía Láctea. Pero lo cierto es que esta imagen se creó utilizando una vista panorámica de 360 grados que se compuso en una imagen de fotósfera. El resplandor verde y rojo que rodea el horizonte del “planeta” corresponde a la luminiscencia nocturna o airglow, un fenómeno atmosférico que se produce cuando las partículas y los gases de la atmósfera tienen cargas eléctricas o se ionizan. Sus átomos emiten luz en varias longitudes de onda cuando se recombinan por la noche y tienen un brillo tenue. Las estelas de polvo oscuro y las regiones rojas de formación estelar que se entrelazan a lo largo de la Vía Láctea también ocupan un lugar destacado en esta vista surrealista del cosmos.

A lo lejos, en la parte inferior izquierda del “planeta”, puede verse la cúpula geométrica del Observatorio Vera C. Rubin, un Programa de NOIRLab de NSF. El Observatorio Rubin es una iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias y el Departamento de Energía (DOE) de EE.UU y se encuentra actualmente en construcción. Una vez terminado, Rubin será operado por NOIRLab de NSF y el Laboratorio Nacional de Aceleradores SLAC del DOE. Rubin llevará a cabo un estudio sin precedentes, de una década de duración, denominado la Investigación del Espacio-Tiempo como Legado para la posteridad (LSST por sus siglas en inglés), que revolucionará el campo de la astronomía y lo que sabemos sobre el Universo.

Puede ver una versión en formato fulldome de esta imagen aquí, y una versión panorámica de 360 grados en este enlace.

Esta foto fue tomada como parte de la Expedición Fotográfica de NOIRLab 2022 a todos los sitios de NOIRLab. Petr Horálek, el fotógrafo, es un Embajador Audiovisual de NOIRLab.
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Author Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

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