On Monday, the largest digital camera ever built released its first pictures of the universe. The shots include colorful ...

A 20-year-wait came to an end on Monday when scientists unveiled the first pictures from the Vera C. Rubin observatory.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released the first images of the universe taken with the world’s largest digital camera inside a massive telescope. Scientists say the ultra high-definition ...

The 6,000-pound camera was built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park. It has the largest lens built for astronomy so it could see as much of the sky as possible.

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

It’s hard to picture the universe in its infancy. The middle-aged cosmos now stretches across 93 billion light-years, holding up to two trillion galaxies and more than 200 billion trillion stars.

And while 388,000 years may seem like an indescribably long time to humans, the universe is currently around 13.8 billion years old—meaning these photos are equivalent to "hours-old baby ...