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Natural History Museum Shows Rubin Telescope's First Images
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), showing the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The glow of the Milky Way reflects off of Rubin Observatory’s silver dome in a photo from May 2025. (Quint) As the museum prepares to launch its Space Sciences exhibit, called Our Cosmic Coast, on July 12, the debut event offered an early glimps…
Could the first images from the Vera Rubin telescope change how we view space for good?
We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set to reveal secrets previously beyond our grasp. Here, we delve into the first images taken by Rubin’s telescope and what they are already showing us. These images vividly showcase the unprecedented power that Rubin will use to revolutionise astronom…
UI astronomer hopes new telescope will unlock some universal mysteries - Radio Iowa
Many space scientists in Iowa are thrilled after seeing the first high-resolution images being released this week from the mountaintop Rubin Observatory in Chile, taken by the largest digital camera ever built. University of Iowa astronomy professor David Nataf says the large, detailed photos may deepen our understanding of the cosmos, helping us to comprehend […]
Cerro Pachón is a key place for world astronomy. In Chile, at more than 2500 meters of altitude, it is one of the areas of the planet with the best conditions to observe the universe. It is there, in that corner of the globe, where in the last days the Vera C. Rubín Observatory has started to operate. After many years of work. A work that in a very important part has been carried out in Avilés. Because an avilesina company, with ship in the PEPA…
The astronomer and scientific divulgator, Jennifer Anguita, described in CNN Tiempo the contribution of the American Observatory Vera Rubin, located in northern Chile. In this context, she explained that this project, promoted by the United States, dates from mid-2013 and stressed that “it comes to revolutionize the way we do astronomy.” “We are used to observatories asking us for observation time, right? We have to postulate, pay for those nigh…
World’s Most Powerful Space Camera Captures Universe From Chile - Pakistan Live News
Distant galaxies are seen in an image produced by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, on Pachon Hill, Coquimbo Region, Chile, June 18, 2025. — Reuters Astronomers have begun analysing the first cosmic images from Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses the world’s largest digital camera, to explore the solar system’s formation and monitor asteroid threats to Earth. Located on Pachon Hill in the northern region of Coquimbo, the 8.4-meter (27-1…
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