The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

Astronomers at the University of Washington are playing key roles in the Rubin Observatory’s construction and operations. UW’s Zeljko Ivezic is director of Rubin construction. Mario Jurić is ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

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 ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing ... And I think that’s really an exciting thing,” Higgs adds. Under construction since 2015, the telescope is named after pioneering American ...

A fter about 10 years of construction, the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is scheduled to see its first light in January 2025. Once it's up and running, it will begin its Legacy Survey of Space and ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been under construction for years. Now, scientists are finetuning its instruments so the telescope can begin its 10-year mission of taking images of ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, has been under construction for years — and later this month workers are ...