Director of the Cerro Tololo Observatory, Steve Heathcote, poses for a picture during an interview with AFP at the Cerro Tololo Observatory, located in the Tololo hill near La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile on January 24, 2024. Surrounded by desert-like mountains and under the blue skies of northern Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize the study of the universe when it incorporates the largest digital camera ever built in the world. (Photo by Javier TORRES / AFP)