The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks...
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The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside me were two-ton custom jigs and dozens of shipping mounts resembling modern art. Within eyeshot were one-to-one-scale mass surrogates representing complex telescope parts and a swimming-pool-size bulletproof crate that had held the observatory’s large reflecting mirror—a 37,000-pound glass object as fragile as a teacup—on its journey across continents and waves to this mountaintop, Cerro Pachón. This ridge, on the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, some 9,000 feet above sea level, is now home to three of the world’s most powerful...
The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks...
The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies...
The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies...
An advanced observatory in the Chilean Andes has captured its first images, offering an extraordinary glimpse at distant galaxies, fast-moving...
An advanced observatory in the Chilean Andes has captured its first images, offering an extraordinary glimpse at distant galaxies, fast-moving...
An international team of astronomers predicts a massive leap in solar system discoveries, thanks to the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its...
An international team of astronomers predicts a massive leap in solar system discoveries, thanks to the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its...
B reathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly discovered asteroids were...
B reathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly discovered asteroids were...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.