Bang! Whiz! Pop! The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to ...
Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...
The Rubin Observatory under contraction in Chile is being built to conduct a ten year survey of the night sky to provide information on the universe's structure, evolution and objects. Credit: Rubin ...
This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes ...