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Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
October 28, 2024 | CNN | Jacopo Prisco
On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets.
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‘We have a telescope!’ Rubin Observatory construction team installs its huge mirror
October 11, 2024 | GeekWire | Alan Boyle
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been equipped with all three of its mirrors, plus a camera for good measure.
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Congratulation to the Rubin Team!
October 8, 2024 | DiRAC
Rubin Team successfully installed the combined primary/tertiary mirror! Check it out here.
Read More »Tech leader Charles Simonyi provides a wide-angle view of the telescope that bears his family name
September 30, 2024 | Alan Boyle | GeekWire
With the ramping up of the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Microsoft software architect Charles Simonyi joins a select group of scientists and technologists, policymakers and philanthropists who have had world-class telescopes and observatories named after them.
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The biggest galaxies live in our universe’s supercluster ‘cities’
September 10, 2024 | Monisha Ravisetti | Space.com
“Over the last decade, many astronomers, like me, have conducted painstaking studies to develop trust in machine learning.” Aritra Ghosh, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, is one of those astronomers.
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