Vera Rubin telescope is pointing the world’s biggest camera at cosmos

June 22, 2025 | The Washington Post | By Joel Achenbach

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits at 8,684 feet on Cerro Pachón in Chile. (Javier Torres/AFP/Getty Images)

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m. EST, followed by a news conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.