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Some folks already caught a sci-fi-level glimpse of it on Thursday, when a blazing meteor put a hole in a Georgia house.
The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...
Mercer University physics and astronomy professor Matthew Marone says the sighting is not uncommon, and it's likely connected to the annual Bootid meteor shower.
Mercer University physics and astronomy professor Matthew Marone says the sighting is not uncommon, and it's likely connected ...
This is just 0.5 percent of all the galaxies that the Rubin Observatory will collect during its Legacy Survey of Space and ...
Meteor showers like the Boötids happen when Earth passes through debris left behind by a comet. In this case, the dust ...
Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...
Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...
Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...