The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, but the big reveal is expected later this year.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, thanks to the Simonyi Survey Telescope and its giant camera as well as a… Read More The Vera C.

CERRO PACHON, Chile - Driving up the mountain road to reach the U.S. National Science Foundation’s newest observatory in Chile, which will begin observations later this year, astronomer Beth ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, under construction in May 2019, promises to reveal more objects faster than any previous telescope. The photo was taken from Gemini South, another large telescope on ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new technology. Three decades ago, physicist Tony Tyson sat in the control room of the ...

Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole located on the outskirts of a galaxy 600 million light-years from Earth ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart of the facility, a pivotal moment in the project's scientific ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team loading the LSST Camera on a transport cart for testing in February 2025. Courtesy Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC ...

Rubin was born Vera Cooper on July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia. At age 10, she moved with her family to Washington, D.C. There, she stared out her bedroom window (she said you could still see the ...

Late into his keynote at Nvidia’s 2025 GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced the next generation of Nvidia AI data center chips named Vera and Rubin, after the groundbreaking astrophysicist.