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 …

The popular Rubin installation provides an immersive experience featuring more than 100 artworks and ritual objects displayed as they would in an elaborate household shrine.

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.

Dr. Vera Rubin was a pioneering astronomer whose observations of galaxy rotation provided the first persuasive evidence of dark matter. This major scientific discovery transformed our understanding of …

Jun 24, 2025 · Rubin’s observations will be stitched together to build a time-lapse record of outer space, creating what has been called “ the greatest cosmic movie ever made.”

Jul 11, 2025 · The observatory is named after the trailblazing astronomer Vera C. Rubin, who found evidence for dark matter, the mysterious substance that binds galaxies together.

Jun 20, 2025 · Rubin is best known as the scientist who shined light on dark matter. Born in 1928, she became fascinated by astronomy as a child looking at stars outside her bedroom window.

Dr. Vera C. Rubin was an American astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe. Prior to her work, dark matter was a concept that …

Rubin is expected to catalog more than five million asteroids (including ~100,000 near-Earth objects), and image approximately 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars, and six million small Solar System bodies.