Building the most advanced observatory in the world 

How remarkable. Thanks for bringing this to us.

This is taking forever, been following this for 10 years.

3.2 giga pixel! Every square millimetre of that image is going to be like you specifically focused on it. Lovely architecture, in a amazing location, it looks beautiful already. definite 👍for the episode.

8.6M primary? Woah, here I am with my 90mm 😂

We humans can do some absolutely amazing things when we want to.

Great to meet the men who build these facilities.

not to take away from this scope, but there is something so very organic and emotional about seeing it with your own eyes and not through a computer screen.

The Rolls Royce of telescopes

Thank You, that you make your Word truth 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😃🙂.

What a cool place to work i bet. Nightly smokes would be fantastic.

This is what should we invest in, not wars.

So we know what it's called but no mention of where in the world is Wally? I think that she forgot where she was LoL 🤣.

Now they need to come up with a way to avoid the MANY Starlink satellites that this telescope will capture nightly.

The Mass-Radial Acceleration Discrepancy by measuring the speeds of galaxies in the Coma Cluster originated with Fritz Zwicky, not Vera Rubin, whom I consider a celebrated plagiarist, as using the more challenging methodology of the virial theorem, by relating the total average kinetic energy and the total average potential energy of the galaxies of the Coma Cluster. My father advanced that the virial for a pair of orbiting mass is zero and used the principle of superposition to craft the argument to a system of interacting mass points. Fritz Zwicky then used the position and velocity of measurements to determine the mass of the galaxy cluster. Vera Rubin advanced self promotion for decades after my father's passing by assigning herself forced credit for Dark Matter, while feigning humility as a woman in the sciences not seeking any special recognition. Rubin remains an unwanted barnacle who attached herself to my father's discovery and work without conscience and by deliberate design to assign credit for myself. Rubin, by her own admission, read my father's work regarding the speeds of galaxies, realized the importance, copied the methodology and advanced a campaign with obnoxious trumpeters to assign that forced credit to herself. This is the legacy of Vera Rubin, who left an indelible mark as plagiarist and is an embarrassment to honorable women pioneers in the sciences with proprietary body of work. It is of note that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a vacuous vessel in forced honor to the celebrated plagiarist Rubin by H.R. 3196. It is a building for the Simonyi Survey Telescope. I was denied the opportunity to speak to the Congressional Committee and voice my opposition to the naming but was assured that: "my letter had been read." Not one Committee member had the courtesy to respond. Reply

When will this beautiful machine come into operation?

A good telescope is a fast telescope. I would have thought the opposite.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will by far offer the best science of any telescope present or planned for the next 10 years. It has many, MANY times the resolution of the Webb. IT (Giant Magellan) is the Ferrari of telescopes. The Rubin's observations are planned to the second, for the next decade. It's more like a long haul trucker who can tell if a blade of grass off a particular exit is different than a week ago.

So using the sun as a lens would be what, an F16?

As amazing as this is it is just 0.001 percent of human budget for war and war preparation capable of doing. If there are a real peace treaty for entire humanity for just 10 years, the money save would be enough to build moon base and hundreds more of these on moons and mars.

Well ... let's see if then ... enough talk

Only for Southern sky.

ELT will be way more potent 💪🏻

A 4 minute video on this telescope is worthless. There are other longer more informative videos on YT that detail this incredible telescope.

Second!!😂

ELT?

Taking flats must be a bear.

Outstanding.