The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn't yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first light in June 2025, when it captured its Virgo First Look images as part of ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

Indian Jesuit Father Richard D’Souza, the new director of the Vatican Observatory, says he will continue the tradition of Vatican astronomers who demonstrated how science and faith can co-exist. The ...

Now the LSST camera's first imagery has been released, starting with a composite of 678 captures over a 7-hour stretch that "clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details" of the Trifid Nebula ...

The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter. Recently, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory shared its first images with the world: stunning ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo Cluster, a massive collection of galaxies in the Virgo constellation, was ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is perched on a mountain in northern Chile in the foothills of the Andes – a location astronomers say is ideal for observing the skies. The observatory’s main objective ...

National Science Foundation and Department of Energy will host a full reveal event streaming on the agency's YouTube channel. Live watch parties are also taking place all over the world. Named for ...

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The first images from a new telescope in Chile were released this week, featuring extraordinarily detailed scenes from deep space. And more are expected to follow the debut series from the ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory uses the world's largest digital camera to capture incredibly detailed images of space. It will create a 10-year, time-lapse movie of the southern sky, showing how the ...

Editor’s Note (6/23/25): This story has been updated with additional imagery and details. Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new ...