This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

What’s New About This Telescope?: With a 21-foot-wide mirror, the Rubin telescope is not the world’s largest. But it does have the world’s largest digital camera , which snaps super-high ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...

Inside the telescope is the world’s largest camera; the size of a small car, it weighs 3,000 kilograms (6600 lbs). It needs to be kept extremely cold (about -100°C or -148°F) ...

The astronomy community has a new tool for studying the sun, with the inauguration this week of the world's largest solar telescope. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located in Maui, Hawai'i ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and ...

It’s the opposite of the approach used for the Hubble or James Webb space telescopes, which zoom in to capture spectacular images of narrow slices of the heavens. Instead, Rubin will repeatedly ...

Euclid space telescope, in search for universe's dark matter, launches from Florida; Webb space telescope captures 'breathtaking' images of Orion Nebula; NASA, ESA release new images of Phantom Galaxy ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which holds the largest digital camera in the world, is preparing to power up.