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

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.

The largest digital camera ever built, it will photograph the entire southern sky in three nights. In just one night, it found 1,200 unknown asteroids.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly ...