“She was passionate about science, science education, women in science, promoting science literacy, teaching young people. She was amazing.” Vera Rubin turned her attention to stars in the 1960 ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

It’s named for Vera Rubin, an American astronomer who in the 1970s and 1980s observed stars moving faster than expected in the outer reaches of dozens of spiral galaxies. Her calculations made a ...

And for the camera that's to be fitted to the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile - performance is everything. This 3.2 gigapixel device is going to help unlock some of the key outstanding questions ...