The author just down the hill from the futuristic LSST survey telescope, the most ambitious ... [+] ground-based survey telescope ever built. My driver and I, however, are headed to the $473 million Vera Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which has been under construction since 2014. This 8.4 meter extremely wide-field telescope is completely unprecedented, never before possible and never before attempted. Known as a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, from its mountaintop vista at Cerro Pachon, the LSST will probe dark energy, dark matter, and find new objects within our own solar system. Storage and maintenance at the bottom of the telescope structure.

Source: Forbes September 27, 2020 07:59 UTC