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UW was among the founding members of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, whose discoveries are expected to revolutionize ...
The largest digital camera ever built released its first shots of the universe Monday — including colorful nebulas, stars and ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.
Duke researchers helped build a powerful new telescope now capturing the most detailed images of the universe ever taken. The Vera Rubin Observatory unveiled its first images Monday, with Duke ...
The powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing some of its first images as part of an ambitious effort to effectively create a movie of all the changes in the southern night sky over a decade.
Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and ...
The 6,000-pound camera was built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park. It has the largest lens built for ...
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, released its first ...
Vera Rubin Observatory has an ideal position atop Cerro Pachón in Chile and is predicted to be the most effective observatory.
The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has named University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz ...