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To study the cosmos, scientists manage an astronomical amount of data
September 3, 2023 | JAMIE SWENSON | UW Magazine
In northern Chile in 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin gathering images of the night sky. “First light” (as astronomers call the moment a telescopic eye first opens) will inaugurate the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—the most ambitious and comprehensive optical astronomy survey ever undertaken. The UW was one of four […]
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Introducing the 2023 Summer Student Research Prize Winners
August 8, 2023 | DiRAC, James Davenport
Thanks to the generous support of the DiRAC Advisory Board, and the local UW Astronomy community, we are proud to introduce our Student Research Prize Winners for Summer 2023! This year we are excited to award 5 summer prizes, including students across a wide range of astronomy and astrophysics research topics…
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New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
July 31, 2023 | UW News | James Urton
An asteroid discovery algorithm — designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for theVera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming 10-year survey of the night sky — has identifiedits first “potentially hazardous” asteroid, a term for space rocks in Earth’s vicinity thatscientists like to keep an eye on. The roughly 600-foot-long asteroid, designated 2022SF289, was discovered during a test […]
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Astronomers are using a new supernova to search for alien signals
June 9, 2023 | SPACE | Jonathan O’Callaghan
If any alien civilisations have spotted the new supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, they may use it to try to make contact.
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Secrets of the Stars
May 30, 2023 | UW Story | James Urton
How UW astronomers, the world’s largest telescope and a revolutionary survey of space will upend what we thought we knew about the universe. Full article is featured on the UW Homepage here.
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