The Vera C Rubin Observatory is a new astronomical facility being built on Cerro Pachón ridge in Chile to search for what researchers call “weird and wonderful” objects in our Solar System and beyond. The observatory, known as VRO, starts work in 2025, and AI will sift through the vast amounts of data it gathers, promising a rich and strange harvest of anomalies.
Space, as Douglas Adams observed, is “vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big”. There is a lot of night sky to observe, and only a limited number of observatories. This is why astronomy has always been such a fruitful field
