A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

This new observatory, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in Chile, houses a new, hi-tech telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. It will monitor the whole southern sky with high resolution, with the entire coverage taking only a few nights.

If anything out there has moved or changed, or if something new appears, the observatory will spot it.

The observatory is named after a scientist who, with her colleagues, examined thousands of images of galaxies and other objects in search of changes and in trying to learn more about one of the most puzzling things in our universe, dark matter.

For most of our history of astronomy, our telescopes have enabled us to see small objects in the sky in great detail. We have certainly learned a lot but using such instruments is like looking through a keyhole. You don't get the big........

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