On June 23, 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed its first images to the wider scientific community and the general public. Beyond their aesthetic value, these truly stunning images represented a monumental step forward in astronomy, signalling the commencement of the 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
This will see Rubin use the Simonyi Survey Telescope and the largest digital camera in the world, the LSST camera (LSSTCam), to scan the entire visible southern hemisphere sky in wavelengths of light across the electromagnetic spectrum from invisible infrared wavelengths to the optical wavelengths our eyes have evolved to see.
