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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.

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The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

Astronomers from CfA and Caltech have located the universe's missing matter, revealing it primarily exists as hot, low-density gas between galaxies.

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