Catherine Haymans
Appearances
Global News Podcast
US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
I've cycled up Arthur's seat this evening in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, the weather gods are against me because the clouds have rolled in from the west, but I can still see Venus shining brightly up there, Jupiter's right up there, and I've got Mars over there in the east, so I've seen three of the best planets.
Global News Podcast
Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
This is an absolute beast of a camera. It has two Guinness World Records. It is about the size of a small car. And the lens in the camera is the same height as an average woman. So this is an absolutely huge camera. to display a single image that we take with this camera. You would need 400 ultra high definition televisions all in a grid to be able to see a single one of these images.
Global News Podcast
Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
And we're going to be taking a thousand of these images every night on repeat over 10 years to build up this movie of the universe. I'm seeing how things change from night to night. And we can be releasing up to 10 million alerts every night to tell people what's changing out there in the universe. It could be asteroids and comets moving in our solar system.
Global News Podcast
Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
It could be stars pulsating in our own galaxy and beyond. supernova explosions, dying stars, and even changes in black holes in galaxies across the universe. So it's a phenomenal new facility, and this is the first time we've ever looked at the universe in this way, looking at how it's changing from night to night across the whole night sky.
Global News Podcast
Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
We're learning about our own solar system, looking to see if there are any asteroids that could potentially one day hit planet Earth. Hopefully we won't find any of that. But because we've got 10 years worth of data that we're going to be collecting, we're also going to be building up this really, really deep image of the universe.
Global News Podcast
Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
which is going to allow us to confront really big questions about what our universe is made up of. What is the dark matter, the strong gravitational force in our universe? What is causing the expansion of our universe to accelerate something that we call dark energy?
Global News Podcast
Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
And this amazing new instrument, this big new camera on the Vera Rubin Observatory, is going to allow us to answer all of these different questions.