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L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.
Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.
The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...
Greetings! I hope you’re enjoying that brilliant light in your pre-dawn eastern sky. It’s one of the best views of Venus ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just dropped its very first images. Expected to revolutionize our understanding of the ...
With 3200 megapixels and a mission to scan the sky every 40 seconds, the Vera Rubin Observatory is set to transform space ...
The first major unveiling of images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is just about to drop, and we have a little taste of ...
It’s not every day we get to see a visual of the entire Sculptor Galaxy, located approximately 10-11 million light-years from Earth, in all its kaleidoscopic splendour.
"No other telescope has been able to detect both real-time changes in the sky and faint or distant objects at the same time ...
With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to start solving the mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to Planet Ni ...