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Just one image from the LSSTCam covers an area equivalent to the size of 45 full moons in the sky.” That one statistic, from ...

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

Rubin Observatory has released its first full-resolution image It was captured using an ultra-powerful 3,200-megapixel ...

Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in ...

A celebration of the long-awaited first images from a major new observatory is overshadowed by proposed severe budget cuts at ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...

Join us for summer public planetarium programs! Programs feature live presentations of current astronomy topics paired with ...

String Theory Is Not Dead - What's New Over the Last Decade of this "Theory of Everything" is the subject of this month’s ...