December 30, 2022 | Alan Boyle | GeekWire
A few years from now, we just might look back at 2022 as Year One for a new age in aerospace: It was the year when NASA’s next-generation space telescope delivered the goods, when NASA’s moon rocket aced its first flight test, and when an all-electric passenger plane built from the ground up took to […]
Read More »December 1, 2022 | Nancy Joseph | UW News
In conversation with James Davenport and 2022 DiRAC Research Prize recipients read more about Vera C. Rubin Observatory and important role of the scientists at the UW’s DiRAC Institute.
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October 24, 2022 | KUOW
Last week, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced a new bill calling for the removal of “space junk.” The Orbital Sustainability Act, or the ORBITS Act, aims to promote the development of technology and methods to clean up rocket and satellite debris orbiting Earth.
Read More »October 4, 2022 | DiRAC NEWS
Applications are open for the LSSTC Catalyst Postdoctoral Fellowship. UW is one of the eligible host institutions for this exciting program. The “Ideas Lab” virtual info session will be held Oct 6th. Register here.
Read More »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
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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May 31, 2022 | GeekWire, Alan Boyle
The THOR algorithm was created by Joachim Moeyens, an Asteroid Institute Fellow at UW; and Mario Juric, director of UW’s DiRAC Institute.
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