Vera C. Rubin

Update: 2025-12-21

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They don't name extremely advanced optics after just anyone. Some of the best deep sky pictures ever taken came from an observatory named for Vera C. Rubin. If that's all you know about her, you know she must have been important. I'll tell you why.

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2026 astronomy preview

2025-12-2804:06

Vera C. Rubin

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A not-so-great greatest elongation; three bright objects in a group; Geminids

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Getting the light just right

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Many movements to follow

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What we learned from the Leonids

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Aiming at the Andromeda Galaxy

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Close but no conjunction; Pleiades legends

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Events to choose from all night long

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New moon meteor shower

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Saturn Nebula

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Deep sky sights in the celestial swan

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Class divisions and meteor showers

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Here's Huygens

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Martian ice caps

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Perseids possible already

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The Great Square and the Summer Triangle

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Pluto and its companions

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The fear of germs from space

2025-07-1304:50

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Vera C. Rubin