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The Drake Municipal Observatory has hosted a summer lecture series for more than 100 years. Start time issues have attendees questioning its future.
Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future discoveries.
The Hong Kong Observatory cancelled the amber rainstorm warning on Thursday afternoon, two hours after it was issued. The forecaster lifted the warning at 7.05pm.
The Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images on June 23, 2025 as it had scanned the night skies only a few days prior, finding over 2,000 asteroids in the process.
The first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 undiscovered asteroids taken in just 10 hours.
The Rubin Observatory will expand upon these previous galactic surveys, increasing the precision of the data and capturing billions more galaxies.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals millions of galaxies, nebulas and more in 1st photos The images were captured in just a little more than 10 hours of test observations as the Rubin Observatory ...
Wisconsin science, industry play critical roles in creating powerful new Rubin Observatory The NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory is a groundbreaking achievement for astronomers. Scientists and companies ...
See the First Breathtaking Images Captured by the Powerful New Telescope at the Rubin Observatory Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the ...
The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands ...
The team behind the long-awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published their first images on Monday, revealing breathtaking views of star-forming regions as well as distant galaxies.