Rubin Observatory Commissioning Camera (ComCam)
Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand
In May or June, when the winter of the southern hemisphere sets under the sky of the Atacama desert in Chile, Vera C. Rubin Observatory will open its dome and the largest digital camera in history will capture the first science-grade image of the cosmos. Beneath the stable atmosphere of the Atacama, Rubin will embark on a 10-year mission to provide humanity with an extraordinary new view of the cosmos through the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
For twenty-four years, the observatory is a new astronomical facility.…
