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AAAS 2026 Annual Meeting - An All-Seeing Eye on the Sky Plenary Session

A new type of telescope designed to accelerate a new sort of astronomy was completed this year on a mountaintop in Chile. Instead of zooming in on objects of interest, like most other telescopes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will relentlessly sweep across the heavens. Starting early next year, it will record the whole sky in unprecedented detail every 3 days, for 10 years. The bounty will be millions of alerts every night, indications that an object has moved, changed, or suddenly appeared. In 1 year, Rubin will gather more optical data than all other telescopes in history, and it will slowly build up the most detailed 3D map of the cosmos ever assembled, open to everyone via an online portal. Bob Blum assumed the position of Acting Director for LSST Operations in October 2018, following a 21-year tenure at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, where he served as Deputy Director for a decade. Blum's research interests lie in large survey science, particularly in examining the Milky Way and the Local Volume. Before taking on the role of Deputy Director, Blum dedicated 10 years to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, working as a staff astronomer. Jennifer Wiseman is an astrophysicist, author, and speaker. She studies the process of star and planet formation in our galaxy using radio, optical, and infrared telescopes, and serves on the AAAS Astronomy Steering Committee. She has worked with several international observatories and is currently a senior astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Wiseman is also interested in science policy and public science engagement. She is a Fellow of the AAAS and served as an AAAS/APS Congressional Science Fellow and as an elected councilor of the American Astronomical Society; for many years, she also directed the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. She enjoys sharing the excitement of scientific discovery and has appeared in many venues, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NOVA, and National Public Radio.