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There's a new telescope on the block and it promises to deliver incredible images of our night sky.
It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory located atop the El Panon peak (8799 feet high) of Cerro Pachon in Coquimbo Region, Chile.
Beginning in early 2026 it will begin photographing and mapping the entire southern sky every few days for a period of ten years. It
will collect billions of objects from asteroids to galaxies both within and without our solar system, and hopefully Planet 9 or X.
 Construction of Rubin began in April of 2015 and was completed in early 2025, with the first images captured on April 15th, 2025 at 8 PM, but released in June 2025. The wide-field reflector has a primary mirror diameter of 8.4 meters or 27 feet and 7.4 inches and a huge 1.65 meter (5 feet 5 inches) diameter camera which was installed in March of 2025. 
The Rubin Telescope multi-lens Camera Below are some of the first Rubin Telescope images of our night sky... 
The Trifid Nebula Virgo Cluster |
