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Great opportunities for software engineers and astronomers with an interest in analysis software development for LSST.
Thanks to the generous support during the Husky Giving Day 2022 campaign, the Summer Research Prize is awarded to four students who are paired with DiRAC Institute faculty mentors to work on problems related to data-intensive astrophysics during Summer 2022.
September 2, 2022 | New Scientist
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will scan the whole southern sky every three nights. From short-lived supernovae to alien megastructures, here are some of the fleeting cosmic phenomena it could capture
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August 31, 2022 | National Geographic
Read More »July 14, 2022 | King5
King5 talks with Thomas Quinn, UW Astronomy, about James Webb Space Telescope’s new images released on July 12th by NASA.
Read More »June 23, 2022 | GeekWire, Alan Boyle
University of Washington astronomer James Davenport and his colleagues lay out the plan in a research paper submitted to the arXiv pre-print server this month. The idea is also the subject of a talk that Davenport’s giving this week at the Breakthrough Discuss conference in California.
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May 31, 2022 | New York Times
The discovery of 104 asteroids by the Asteroid Institute, using the THOR algorithm running on our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) cloud-based astrodynamics platform!
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