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The world’s largest digital camera has revealed its first images. The size of a small car, the Legacy Survey of Space and ...
The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will take ultra-high-resolution images of the southern hemisphere night sky every three ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, in Chile, saw its first photon a few months ago, a monumental event 25 years in the making. Senior Editor Evan Ackerman’s journey to Chile, to see the observatory and ...
The ultra-rare object is travelling at about 245,000 kilometres an hour and will fly deep into the solar system, skimming past Mars.
The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid ...
Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...
The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...
After years of preparation, U.K. astronomers are celebrating a major milestone as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals its first dazzling images of the night sky. This marks the beginning of the most ...