- Vera Rubin’s Legacy Lives On in a Troubled Scientific Landscape
A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when it was named for a once overlooked female astronomer Vera C Rubin, the
- A Life of Curiosity: Remembering Vera Rubin Through Her . . .
A personal tribute to astronomer Vera Rubin, told through stories and memories from her granddaughter, Ramona Rubin Meredith Herndon On June 3, 2025, the Dr Vera Rubin quarter was released as
- Who was Vera Rubin? Dark matter astronomers legacy continues . . .
NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, will revolutionize the way we explore the cosmos Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years and create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our Universe
- Who was Vera Rubin? Here’s what to know about the astronomer . . .
Vera Rubin was the GOAT of dark matter How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe
- New Quarter Honors Vera Rubin, Astronomer Who Revealed the . . .
In 2019, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, designed to map the universe in greater detail than ever before, was renamed the Vera C Rubin Observatory This observatory, the first U S national observatory named after a woman, will carry Rubin’s legacy forward by mapping dark matter across the universe
- Who was Vera Rubin? - Rubin Observatory
Who was Vera Rubin, and why was a major US observatory named after her? Read on to learn about Vera Rubin and how her legacy has inspired the work we do at Rubin Observatory
- Vera Rubin - National Womens History Museum
Rubin’s legacy is not only solidified by her scientific findings, but through many other honors A ridge on Mars has been named after her, as well as an asteroid, a satellite, a galaxy, and the National Science Foundation’s Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile
- Vera Rubin: Biography, history of the trailblazing astronomer
Three decades after dark matter was hypothesized, in a breakthrough moment, one astronomer collected the first direct evidence of dark matter’s existence Her name was Vera Rubin, and her work
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