DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory debuted on June 23, 2025. Scientists at Duke and across the world await the groundbreaking data it will come to collect.

The Vera Rubin Observatory shared the first images taken with the technology, hailed as a transformative breakthrough in astronomical research.

The Rubin Observatory sits on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, with the digital camera scanning the sky to create an ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side.

The observatory is named after Vera Rubin , an American astronomer, because she was a "trailblazing" astronomer, according to the facility's website, which noted Rubin "found conclusive evidence of ...

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

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

They’ve turned on the sky.That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly what the instrument can do ...