Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the nearly complete Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture the cosmos in exquisite detail. Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years and create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe

Rubin Observatory is not just a telescope, it’s a complex, integrated system consisting of an 8-meter class wide-field ground-based telescope, a 3.2-gigapixel camera, an automated data processing system, and a public engagement platform. Rubin Observatory seeks to enable science in four main areas:

• The nature of dark matter, and understanding of dark energy 
• Cataloging the Solar System 
• Exploring the changing sky
• Milky Way structure and formation