August 25, 2021 | Press Release
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington have announced an expansive, multi-year collaboration to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
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August 16, 2021 | LSSTC News
The LSST Corporation, a non-profit consortium of approximately 30 research institutions (including UW), has received $7 million to establish the LSSTC Catalyst Fellowship Funded by the John Templeton Foundation. These will support early-career researchers as they study big data generated from the soon-to-be-completed Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile.
Read More »August 15, 2021 | Asteroid Institute
Have you ever wondered how an asteroid gets named? Dr. Sarah Greenstreet describes the asteroid recently named after her.
Read More »August 5, 2021 | UW News
An international team of astronomers, including DiRAC research professor James Davenport, reports that superflares pose only a limited danger to exoplanets because the flares tend to originate near the poles of the stars – not the equator where most exoplanets orbit.
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