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Look inside the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory
After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern sky . This enormous telescope has already produced stunning new images of the heavens and discovered thousands of new asteroids .
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A cotton candy nebula glows in Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first close-up image: Space photo of the weekThis spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.
Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...
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Observatories like the Vera Rubin Observatory produce massive amounts of data — simulations help make sense of itAstronomers face a data deluge from observatories like Vera Rubin — simulated skies may be key to training algorithms to keep ...
A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...
"Vera Rubin is our best bet to find it in the next few years, probably," says Sheppard. "It's going to turn over more rocks than anyone has turned over before." ...
Vera Rubin’s husband, Robert, a mathematician and physicist, died in 2008. “I think it’s no coincidence that the four children all ended up doing science,” Allan wrote in a family memoir.
Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future ...
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, boasting the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos.
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