Showing off their love for Halo, one Minecraft player is creating a map that looks like one of the rings from the iconic ...
Trillions of neutrinos whiz through our bodies every day, pulsing from the sun, outer space and deep beneath Earth. Yet these elusive subatomic particles have proven difficult to study. That could ...
Even before its full science operations have begun, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has already helped astronomers find something remarkable. The observatory's first images, revealed in June, ...
George Ellery Hale initiated the establishment of Yerkes Observatory in 1892, securing funding from Charles Yerkes for a facility to house two 40-inch telescope lens blanks. Construction commenced in ...
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 ...
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 ...
University of Washington astronomer Zeljko Ivezic talks about the Rubin Observatory — a project in which he played a leading role — with an image of the facility displayed behind him. (GeekWire Photo ...
Recently, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory shared its first images with the world: stunning photographs of spiral galaxies, nebulas, and stars strung across our universe. The technology used to capture ...
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 ...
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An observatory in Chile with the world's largest camera has published first images of star nurseries and galaxies. The Vera Rubin Observatory can detect even tiny changes in the sky, making it an ...
The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside me were two-ton custom jigs and dozens ...