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The Vera Rubin Observatory

The Vera Rubin Observatory

Update: 2025-06-28
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The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun operations in Chile, aiming to photograph the entire southern sky every four days with an ultra-powerful telescope and a 3,200-megapixel camera. Named after pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, the observatory will help track asteroids, monitor changing celestial objects, and discover billions of galaxies — offering new clues about the universe’s structure, dark matter, and our cosmic origins.

 

Want to know more about the Vera Rubin Observatory?

https://www.lsst.org

 

Technical paper from 1979 showing Vera Rubin and collaborators results about rotational curves in spiral galaxies and its consequences

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ApJ...225L.107R/abstract


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The Vera Rubin Observatory

The Vera Rubin Observatory

Luis Chavarria - Astronomer