The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, but the big reveal is expected later this year.

(Out of long habit, many scientists still refer to the whole project as LSST, although, officially, that’s just the sky survey. In January the observatory was named in honor of Vera Rubin ...

The community embraced it, renaming it first the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). In 2019, the US Congress officially renamed the observatory to honor Vera C. Rubin, a pioneer in dark matter ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team loading the LSST Camera on a transport cart for testing in February 2025. Courtesy Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC ...

Rubin Observatory in Chile by the middle of May ... A photograph of the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera made by scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator ...

Rubin Observatory is nearing completion ... and weeks of testing, the LSST Camera has been successfully installed on the Simonyi Survey Telescope. The teams breathe a collective sigh of relief.

With its cutting-edge capabilities, the LSST aims to shed light on these fundamental cosmic mysteries. Nestled within the Vera C Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in Chile's remote ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, thanks to the Simonyi Survey Telescope and its giant camera as well as a data management team that ...