The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...

in a design intended to make the telescope compact and nimble. Light from the cosmos bounces from the mirror’s outer surface to a secondary mirror, back to the main mirror’s inner surface, and from ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

This principle is why incredibly powerful telescopes like the JWST enable us to see into the distant past. So far, even, that we may be able to see millions of years farther into the past than Hubble ...

Aug. 31—CANTON — A massive 11-foot-wide mirror, created in Canton, is installed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The mirror will help scientists identify potentially harmful ...

On July 24, 2024, a team at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile installed its 3.4-meter secondary mirror onto the Simonyi Survey Telescope. Its installment brings the facility one step closer ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 3.5-meter secondary mirror has been installed on the Simonyi Survey Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile. The glass mirror—made by Corning Advanced Optics and polished ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope is slated to probe the cosmos for Earthlike worlds and atmospheric signatures of potential extraterrestrial life.