A powerful new observatory has unveiled its first images to the public, showing off what it can do as it gets ready to start its main mission: making a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that ...

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Editor’s Note (6/23/25): This story has been updated with additional imagery and details. Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new ...

Looking almost like a watercolour painting, this stunning photograph of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was taken by Yuri Beletsky on 19 January from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet poses next ...