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

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

(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 ...

Willman was the deputy director of the Rubin construction project and now serves as the executive director of the LSST Discovery Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

Caption A simulated image to match the parameters of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). To simulate the image, researchers took high-resolution, atmosphere ...

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 ...

The Chinese Embassy in Chile on Thursday firmly opposed the recent actions and statements by the US over a China-Chile ...