The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first images.The telescope sits atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, under some of the most ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first images. The telescope sits atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, under some of the ...

Caption: This image shows another view of the Virgo Cluster using the 3.2-billion megapixel camera on the 8.4-metre Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The research draws on two existing approaches to better estimate stars’ ages.

The observatory’s goal was not always so broad. Originally named the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the Rubin Observatory was initially proposed as a dark-matter hunter.

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” ...