The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn't yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first light in June 2025, when it captured its Virgo First Look images as part of ...

Proton, the company behind Proton VPN and other encrypted apps like Proton Mail and Proton Drive, just launched a new web page called the Data Breach Observatory that aims to make accurate cybercrime ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. Reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

In the sequencer, if "Park Dome" operation is run the observatory commands the dome to park via the ASCOM driver. However, the Park operation is marked as completed and the next operation in the ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed astronomer Father Richard Anthony D’Souza, SJ, as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. D’Souza, who has worked at the Vatican’s astronomical research and ...

With no light pollution nearby, the night skies around the Vera Rubin Observatory glow in brilliant colors in this timelapse photo. The Vera Rubin Observatory is designed to study dark matter, which ...

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 Drake Municipal Observatory has helped the general public enjoy the wonders of space from Des Moines for more than a century. Throughout its existence, Drake astronomy professors have led the ...

SO AS WE’RE HIKING IN OVER 26 YEARS WORKING AT THE BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY AND SCIENCE CENTER IN MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR DON MCCASLIN HAS LEARNED A THING OR TWO. THIS TRUNK IS A BEACH ...

University of Washington astronomer Zeljko Ivezic talks about the Rubin Observatory — a project in which he played a leading role — with an image of the facility displayed behind him. (GeekWire Photo ...

Recently, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory shared its first images with the world: stunning photographs of spiral galaxies, nebulas, and stars strung across our universe. The technology used to capture ...