On June 23, 2025, Tony Tyson joined a presentation in Washington, D.C., to unveil an image almost 30 years in the making: 10 million galaxies poised on an inky black backdrop. To appreciate each galaxy in detail, you’d have to stretch the picture across 400 TVs. It’s the first portrait of the cosmos delivered by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new astronomical facility built by the United States on a mountain in Chile. And it captures just 0.05% of the galaxies that the observatory’s mammoth camera will record over the next decade.
That camera is ushering in an ultra-vivid new era of astronomy; it’s also Tyson’s magnum opus.
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