Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in many different types of galaxies." ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

A major scientific breakthrough is anticipated with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction on Cerro ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create an opportunity for precision in space exploration that has never been ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, will begin operating this year and survey the sky for 10 years, capturing a uniquely detailed image of the cosmos. Tony Tyson, ...

Rubin Observatory, is set to transform our understanding of the universe, probing deeper into space than ever before. These ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon begin scanning the southern hemisphere sky every night for ten years, covering the entire hemisphere approximately every few nights. Every time Rubin ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, an 8.4-meter telescope built by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, successfully passed a series of critical systems ...

(Main) An illustration shows the Vera C. Rubin observatory hunting for Type Ia supernovas (Inset) an illustration of a feeding white dwarf reaching critical mass. | Credit: (Main) RubinObs/NOIRLab ...