Named for the pioneering astrophysicist Vera C. Rubin, whose work confirmed the existence of dark matter, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory stands as one of the most ambitious ground-based telescopes ever built.
Rubin's mission is to survey the entire southern sky every three nights, using its 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope and a record-breaking 3.2 gigapixel LSST Camera, the largest digital camera.
