The Trifid Nebula is a dynamic place. Inside it, new stars are being born, creating intense radiation that sculpts the gas into the spectacular shapes seen in the image.

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...

Mapping the Cosmos This image offers a closer look at the region surrounding the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae, as seen in this First Look image captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The Trifid ...

“We were looking to answer, ‘How do dark matter and dark energy shape the universe we live in?’” said David Silva, UTSA ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

One of the debut images is a composite of 678 exposures taken over just seven hours, capturing the Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula — both several thousand light-years from Earth — glowing ...

Located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, the world's most powerful digital camera is set to transform how we see the universe.

The photos were taken by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera located at the Vera C Rubin observatory in the ...

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.

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas ...