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Survey Telescopes

Facilities that map large areas of the sky.

4 entries.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Optical survey observatory · Chile
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), imaging the entire southern sky every few nights.
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Optical observatory · Chile
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile is a NOIRLab site whose telescopes carried out the Dark Energy Survey.
Gaia
Completed
Visible Light · 2013
Gaia was ESA's astrometry mission, charting the positions, distances, and motions of nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.
WISE
Retired
Infrared · 2009
WISE surveyed the entire sky in infrared light, cataloguing hundreds of millions of objects and, as NEOWISE, tracking near-Earth asteroids.