A new era in space exploration has officially begun. On 23 June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveiled its first breathtaking images of the cosmos, captured using the world's largest digital camera. The release marks the start of an ambitious 10-year survey to map the universe in unprecedented detail — and possibly rewrite what we know about it.
The observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, a 3.2-gigapixel technological marvel weighing over 3,000kg, is now live. With its eye trained on the southern skies, the camera is set to track billions of stars, galaxies and cosmic events — many of them never seen before.
