The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

NSF NOIRLab has begun the New Year by unveiling a remarkable deep-space image of the Antlia Cluster, including hundreds of ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

“Vera Rubin was truly inspirational,” says Neta ... She wanted to know how fast they circled the center of their galaxy. As she started to measure the speeds of stars farther and farther ...

Around the middle of 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin its mission to help us better understand the cosmos.

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

And for the camera that's to be fitted to the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile - performance is everything. This 3.2 gigapixel device is going to help unlock some of the key outstanding questions ...

Reviewed by Lexie CornerJan 2 2025 NSF NOIRLab begins the New Year by showcasing an image of the Antlia Cluster captured by ...

Dr. Vera Rubin, the astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. Stacey Park Milbern, an activist for people with disabilities. Althea Gibson, a professional tennis player and golfer ...

Prior to Gaia, obtaining a robust rotation curve for our galaxy was challenging ... In the 1970s, astronomers Vera Rubin, who used observations of ionized gas, and Albert Bosma, who studied ...