Congratulations to the Vera Rubin Observatory staff, all around, for being named a runner-up for Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year, after the boom in renewable energy (i. e., Swanson’s Law):
vol. 390 #6779, 18 Dec
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2025
Kaiser, J. Enserink, M. Leslie, M. et al. Runners-up .aee8002
§An all-seeing eye on the sky
As era-defining as the Rubin telescope will be, it still comes in second. Any solar panels on Cerro Pachon?