THE BIGGEST CAMERA EVER BUILT

Vera C. Rubin Observatory

If you thrilled to the amazing images from the Hubble Space Telescope and have been blown away by the intergalactic views from the newer James Webb Space Telescope, brace yourself. The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory on a mountaintop in Chile will open up vistas never seen before, thanks to the largest camera ever built: 3200 megapixels worth of image captured in 30-second exposures about a thousand times every night. The plan is to photograph the entire sky of the Southern Hemisphere every few days to create a ten-year long high-definition digital record. So much information only extremely sophisticated software will be able to analyse it.

It's hard to even imagine the number of never-before-seen features the Rubin will be able to find, but you can read more here. Prepare to be amazed.

SPHEREX WILL CREATE THE BEST EVER COSMIC MAP

While the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes offer more and more detailed views of distant objects, NASA’s recently launched Spherex telescope will produce “the most colorful, inclusive map ever made of the cosmos.” That’s right, it will map the entire sky over several years to learn, among other things, how galaxies form and how the universe expanded so quickly in its earliest instants.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/nasas-spherex-telescope-launch

Photograph: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Reuters