When the Vera C. Rubin Observatory comes online, perhaps at full bore in 2025, this powerful and unique survey telescope, at high altitude in Chile, will survey the heavens in a new and unprecedented way. Originally named the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed to honor the great Vera Rubin, who diedContinue reading “‘It’s going to be awesome’: How the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will survey space and time”
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