The Vera Rubin Observatory is ready to revolutionize astronomy

To answer big cosmic questions, “you need something like Rubin. There is no competition.”

A photo of the Vera Rubin Observatory

Built on a flat mountaintop high in the Chilean Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory was named to honor the work of a trailblazing U.S. astronomer.

RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/ AURA/P. Horálek/Institute of Physics in Opava

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