Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI Acknowledgments: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff ...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Gemini Observatory, the Gemini South telescope captured an amazing ...
It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has captured its first images of the night sky and promises to provide a "firehose" of data to researchers over the coming decade. Credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF ...
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen with its dome open during First Look observation activities in April 2025. M41, the Little Beehive Cluster, can be seen ...
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits atop a Chilean mountain named Cerro Pachón, at 8,684 feet above sea level. (Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/A ...