On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

First look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, set to be unveiled June 23, will be a promising addition to astronomy ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

When we gaze up at a star-filled night sky, we often feel a sense of awe and wonder. But for scientists, those thousands of ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more exquisite detail than ever before. MIT Technology Review Explains ...

It’s here that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon use a car-size 3,200-megapixel digital camera—the largest ever built—to produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days.

Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, has been under construction for years — and later this month workers are ...

The Simonyi Survey Telescope now has its mirrors and a camera in place. (Credit: Rubin Observatory) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been ...