Survey Telescopes

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.

Optical observatory · Chile

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile is a NOIRLab site whose telescopes carried out the Dark Energy Survey.

Visible Light · 2013

Gaia was ESA's astrometry mission, charting the positions, distances, and motions of nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

Infrared · 2009

WISE surveyed the entire sky in infrared light, cataloguing hundreds of millions of objects and, as NEOWISE, tracking near-Earth asteroids.