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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Unveils First Images Ahead of Decadal Sky Survey

  • On Monday, June 23, 2025, the team at the Vera Rubin Observatory unveiled their initial set of images captured from their facility atop Cerro Pachon in Chile.
  • This release followed over two decades of construction funded by the U.S. NSF and DOE to build a telescope with the largest digital camera ever made.
  • The images showcase star-forming regions like the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae and a view of 10 million galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, revealing unprecedented cosmic detail.
  • Michael Kratsios emphasized the Rubin Observatory as a crucial step toward future scientific discovery, highlighting its impact after the facility identified 2,104 new asteroids—including seven non-threatening near-Earth objects—within just 10 hours of observation.
  • Beginning later this year, the observatory will launch its flagship decade-long project to repeatedly image the southern sky every few nights, gathering more data than all previous optical telescopes combined.
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“Chile’s commitment to astronomy is not only the one that is written in the papers, but it is also cultural, idiosyncratic. It is what we are as a society, because Chile is a country of astronomy.” With those words, the minister of Science and spokesperson(s) of government, Aisén Etcheverry, welcomed the first light of the recently inaugurated Vera C. Rubin telescope. Next to it was the director of the Chilean Institute of Astrophysics (MAS), Fr…

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