Vera C. Rubin Observatory Releases First Breathtaking Celestial Images

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 on Monday, followed by a livestream event.

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

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