Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's primary mirror is 8.4 meters in diameter, which makes it one of the largest optical ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

The first mind-bending images taken by the observatory were released today in the tradition of “first light,” a new ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

Vera Cooper Rubin (1928–2016) was a pioneering American astronomer who reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. In the 1970s ...