Dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin gets a new observatory named after her
The researcher found evidence of dark matter and broke barriers for women in science
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Astronomer Vera Rubin uncovered evidence of dark matter in the 1970s. A new effort to study dark matter and other cosmic quandaries has been named in her honor.
NSF’s Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA