This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Locate Threatening Asteroids and Millions of Galaxies

Who was Vera Rubin? Here’s what to know about the astronomer behind dark matter.

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

The first images from Vera Rubin telescope are about to drop

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects. Galileo Galilei quickly improved the designs and became the first to explore the heavens, revealing the moon's craters, Jupiter's moons and the rings of Saturn.

This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Locate Threatening Asteroids and Millions of Galaxies

Beginning next year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will use the world’s largest digital camera to give us a whole new view of the universe

The First Images from Vera Rubin are About to Drop

The Vera C. Rubin is a game changing observatory that we've been keeping our eyes on. When it goes online, it'll begin a 10 year survey of the southern sky, capturing the entire sky every few nights, eventually building up a history of 800 images of each spot. It'll generate 20 terabytes of data every day, collecting 60 petabytes of raw image data. And it's almost ready to begin operations. On June 23 at 15:00 UTC, operators are going to release…

Vera C. Rubin debut images: How to see the groundbreaking space photos from the world's largest camera

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will share its first highly-detailed images of the sky on Monday. Find details about how to see them here.