“This is the dawn of the Rubin Observatory.”
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile just dropped its first images from the largest digital camera ever built, a 3.2-gigapixel monster sitting on top of a mountain. One composite image stitched together more than 600 individual exposures. While shooting the deep sky it also discovered 2,104 asteroids, including seven whose orbits come uncomfortably close to Earth. This is what happens when you point real engineering at the actual sky instead of using the word “breakthrough” to describe a chatbot update.