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Vera Rubin’s telescope hunts for clues to dark matter’s pull
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a 10-year survey facility in Chile, honors the late astronomer famed for her dark matter discoveries.
Photo by Jay Fu ’28 · vassar.edu Vassar College alumna Vera C. Rubin’s early passion for astronomy, building a cardboard telescope at age 10 to track meteors, is honored by the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The observatory, the first major, publicly funded U.S. observatory named after a woman, uses the largest digital camera ever built to begin a decade-long survey of the universe. “Rubin became famous for her discovery of dark matter,” explains Vassar’s Physics and Astronomy…
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