Rubin Observatory shared its first images with the world: stunning photographs of spiral galaxies, nebulas, and stars strung ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

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The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.

The first deep space images from a mountaintop observatory in Chile have scientists excited for what they could soon learn ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory was conceived nearly 30 years ago, and now we are finally seeing the first images captured by ...

The observatory made international news as it released its first images this week. The observatory took over two decades to ...

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The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...

The state-of-the-art observatory sits on a mountain summit in Chile at a little over 8,000 feet above sea level.

A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to science community across the world.

You can see the extent of The Cosmic Treasure Chest in the video above, or you can use the special viewfinder to explore the image yourself, to hunt for a never-before-seen galaxy. You can even ...