The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, but the big reveal is expected ...

A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous LSST Camera — the last optical component required before the last phase of ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory ... Camera), which has only a fraction of the power of the observatory's science camera. The observatory is designed to peer deep into the cosmos to create an ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, thanks to the Simonyi Survey Telescope and its giant camera as well as a… Read More The Vera C.

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is hidden in our solar system.

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team loading the LSST Camera on a transport cart for testing in February 2025. Courtesy Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory ... database for study by astronomers around the world. The Rubin Observatory’s mirror-and-camera combo will operate differently from other big astronomical ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

It is what we cannot see, however, that will forever remind us of astronomer Vera Rubin. Rubin is best known ... an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Hunter worked closely ...

Every year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review compiles its list of breakthrough technologies that ...

In the next few months, from its perch atop a mountain in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin surveying the cosmos with the largest camera ever built. Every three nights, it will ...