Vera C. Rubin Observatory

It was jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science.

It is located in Cerro Pachón in Chile.

It’s named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter.

The 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory is equipped with the LSST Camera — the largest digital camera ever built. 

The telescope will take detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky for 10 years.

  1. About Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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