The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.

gravity and rotation and how they change over time. (Eli Hartman|Odessa American) Join McDonald Observatory May 7-11 for Dark Sky Week, a celebration of the famous night skies of Far West Texas.

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the ...

More than twenty years ago, Judy Meyer moved to West Texas from Idaho after her husband got a job working on the telescopes at McDonald Observatory ... love about the night sky?