 Our final piece for 2016 is on the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, operated by Caltech. I had the opportunity to visit the observatory this past summer. Palomar is playing a significant role in modern time-domain astronomy that studies how astronomical objects change with time, including everything from distant supernova to nearby asteroids. A transient facility is a complex combination of telescopes, fast wide-angle cameras, and rapid computer-based spectrographic analysis. We're detecting and communicating these changes. The Palomar Transit Factory, attached to the Samuel Ocean Telescope, has been doing this for years, producing millions of publicly available images. Now a new facility, named the Zwicky Transient Facility, will see first light here in 2017. Its new camera will be able to examine nearly the entire sky in eight hours. Its enormous 40-degree footprint makes it one of the most efficient cameras ever developed for mapping the sky. The facility was named after the famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who you may recall from our 2015 update, was the first to discover dark matter. In the 1930s, he persuaded Caltech to build a telescope at Palomar that could capture large numbers of galaxies in a single wide-angle photograph. They did. And that's what he used to study the Coma Cluster, where he found the first evidence for dark matter. We'll check back in on his namesake successes in our 2017 update.