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Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (/ ˈ r uː b ɪ n /; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves .
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory under construction in Chile. Its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey , the Legacy Survey of Space and Time .
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She used galaxies' rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
2008 Vera Rubin † "for her pioneering research indicating the ... discovers the k-meson in what Heisenberg calls "most beautiful" pictures of cosmic ray tracks from ...
UGC 2885 (Rubin's Galaxy, [10] nicknamed "Godzilla galaxy" [11]) is a large barred spiral galaxy of type SA(rs)c in the constellation Perseus.It is 232 million light-years (71 Mpc) from Earth and measures 463,000 ly (142,000 pc) across, making it one of the largest known spiral galaxies.
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Buckley added that Rubin's death was sudden, saying "he was here with us yesterday." In a statement on social media, KTLA shared, "KTLA 5 is profoundly saddened to report the death of Sam Rubin.