Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.
It is what we cannot see, however, that will forever remind us of astronomer Vera Rubin. Rubin is best known for confirming the existence of dark matter and, along the way, serving as an advocate ...
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Dr. Vera Cooper Rubin has been awarded the honor through the American Women Quarters Program, which was launched in 2022 by the U.S. Mint in partnership with the Smithsonian American Women’s ...
Rubin’s work at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, starting in the 1960s, led to the discovery of dark matter. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory on a mountaintop in Chile, where the skies ...