Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery Hale revolutionized American astronomy by, among other things, championing the construction of ever-larger telescopes. He established Mount Wilson ...

Enjoy classic sci-fi, vintage silent films, and even a few family-friendly surprises in Mt. Wilson Observatory’s 256-seat auditorium. Moviegoers can enjoy lunch at the Cosmic Cafe or picnic on the ...

By contrast, the terrestrial Rubin Observatory telescope and Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera can reach more than halfway across the universe.

They’ve turned on the sky.That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a next-generation deep-space facility perched high atop Cerro Pachón in Chile. The ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals millions of galaxies, nebulas and more in 1st photos The images were captured in just a little more than 10 hours of test observations as the Rubin Observatory ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Scientists at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have unveiled the highly anticipated first images taken by its powerful telescope, and they’re stunning.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first images.

For the next 10 years, the survey telescope and digital camera from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will scan the night sky to capture a timelapse movie of our cosmos.

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions in spectacular detail.