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A new era in space exploration has officially begun. On 23 June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveiled its ...
With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.
Astronomers have revealed the first images from "the most ambitious astronomical survey to date" - a mission that will transform our understanding of ...
The largest digital camera ever built, it will photograph the entire southern sky in three nights. In just one night, it found 1,200 unknown asteroids.
They’ve turned on the sky.That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a ...
The Vera Rubin Observatory has cemented its status as a rising star, revealing unprecedented detail captured by the biggest ...
The 6,000-pound camera was built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park. It has the largest lens built for astronomy so it could see as much of the sky as possible.
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...
Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...
The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...
Astronomers have revealed the first images from “the most ambitious astronomical survey to date” – a mission that will ...