Next year, I am eagerly anticipating the start of The Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Sometime in May or June, as southern winter sets in under the skies of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will open its dome and the largest digital camera in history will capture the first scientific-quality images of space. It turns out. . Beneath the pristine, stable atmosphere of Atacama, Rubin will begin a 10-year mission to provide humanity with a startling new vision of the universe with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

After 24 years of construction, the observatory is a brand new astronomical facility.