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UW researchers join national effort to streamline AI-driven cosmology
July 22, 2026 | UW News
Modern astronomy is producing more data than ever before. Powerful telescopes — like the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the DOE-NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory — and other instruments around the world are collecting detailed information about billions of stars, galaxies and other cosmic objects.
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Rubin Observatory begins landmark 10-year timelapse of night sky
June 30, 2026 | UW News
From a mountaintop in Chile, under clear dark skies, the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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Action! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made
June 30, 2026 | NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF NOIRLab
The 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics
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Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors
May 18, 2026 | Quanta Magazine | Jonathan O'Callaghan
Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive.
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through the Eyes of Rubin Observatory
May 13, 2026 | AAS NOVA | Kerry Hensley
Featuring Colin Orion Chandler (LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing Frameworks; University of Washington) and collaborators describing how they tracked down 3I/ATLAS in Rubin’s commissioning data after the object’s discovery was announced.
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