Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy.

The new images represent just over 10 hours of test observations, offering a brief preview of the observatory’s decade-long mission to explore the mysteries of the universe like never before.

The thousands of images the Rubin Observatory will collect in its 10-year mission will help scientists understand everything from the nature of dark matter to other large-scale cosmic mysteries. “We ...

That messiness doesn’t deter him. Nature’s nuance is all part of the quest for truth. The more we see that mess, the more we see the world for what it is.