See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A sneak preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile made its way to news sites and social media last week, followed by a livestream event.

"(The Rubin Observatory is) going to build the greatest time-lapse movie of the cosmos ever made," the observatory said in a post.

The observatory is named for the American scientist widely credited for finding some of the first evidence of dark matter, with the project being funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy's ...