One image is a composite of 678 exposures taken over seven hours, capturing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae – both several ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side.

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

Named after Dr. Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who discovered conclusive evidence for the existence of dark matter, this ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

The world’s most powerful digital camera has taken its first photos, and they reveal the cosmos in stunning detail. Shared as part of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s ‘First Look’ campaign, the ...

They’ve turned on the sky. That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a ...

The largest digital camera ever built released its first shots of the universe Monday, including colorful nebulas, stars and ...

Astronomy enters a new era as Rubin Observatory’s nonstop imaging and AI tools let scientists study the universe from ...