Jun 23, 2025 · Rubin's work in the 1970s showed that galaxies were rotating too fast to be held together by visible matter alone, suggesting the presence of unseen mass. Her discovery reshaped our …

Vera Cooper was born on July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the younger of two sisters born to a Jewish family with roots in Eastern Europe.

It’s named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter. Rubin Observatory is the first of its kind: its mirror design, camera sensitivity, telescope …

Jun 23, 2025 · 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 …

Jun 28, 2025 · Rubin is remembered first and foremost for her pioneering, long-term studies of spiral galaxies. Her stunning and unexpected discoveries helped to convince astronomers that dark matter …

Jun 23, 2025 · Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new telescope perched atop a mountain in Chile, released its first …

Jun 26, 2025 · Rubin’s combination of speed, wide field of view, and sensitive camera expands the limits of what a telescope can do. No other telescope has been able to detect both real-time changes in the …

Jun 24, 2025 · Rubin continued to accumulate data about the motions of galaxies throughout her career. Others picked up where she left off and have helped advance dark matter research over the past 50 …

Jun 23, 2025 · As an artist, I find it hard not to imagine Rubin as a sculptural entity, an object that in its complexity has stretched the limits of what Earth’s storehouse of materials can accomplish.

Jun 23, 2025 · “Rubin will deliver the largest map the universe ever made: tens of billions of galaxies, billions of stars and millions of new small bodies in our own solar system.