Jun 23, 2025 · Rubin's work in the 1970s showed that galaxies were rotating too fast to be held together by visible matter alone, suggesting the presence of unseen mass. Her discovery …

It’s named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter. Rubin Observatory is the first of its kind: its mirror design, camera …

Vera Cooper was born on July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the younger of two sisters born to a Jewish family with roots in Eastern Europe.

Jun 23, 2025 · Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new telescope perched atop a mountain in Chile, released …

Jun 23, 2025 · Rubin will be a game changer for planetary defense by spotting far more asteroids than ever before, potentially identifying some that might impact the Earth or moon.

Jun 23, 2025 · With the release of its first 3,200-megapixel images, Rubin, an astronomy and astrophysics facility in Chile, will soon begin its decade-long mission to capture the cosmos in …

Jun 20, 2025 · Rubin is best known as the scientist who shined light on dark matter. Born in 1928, she became fascinated by astronomy as a child looking at stars outside her bedroom window.

Jun 26, 2025 · Rubin’s combination of speed, wide field of view, and sensitive camera expands the limits of what a telescope can do. No other telescope has been able to detect both real …

Jun 23, 2025 · “Rubin will deliver the largest map the universe ever made: tens of billions of galaxies, billions of stars and millions of new small bodies in our own solar system.

Jun 24, 2025 · Rubin continued to accumulate data about the motions of galaxies throughout her career. Others picked up where she left off and have helped advance dark matter research …