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Citizen Scientists Uncover Hidden Secrets of the Solar System: “Active Asteroids” Project Reveals Dozens of Rare Celestial Bodies

March 18, 2024 |

In a groundbreaking collaboration between scientists and the global community, the “Active Asteroids” Citizen Science project has unveiled a trove of discoveries, shedding light on a poorly understood population of objectspreviously unknown “active minor planets” in our solar system. Launched on August 31, 2021, through a NASA Partner program hosted on the Zooniverse online platform, […]

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Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory

March 13, 2024 | Rubin Observatory News

Rubin Observatory’s primary/tertiary mirror was successfully moved from a storage building into the observatory on March 7, 2024.

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2023 Buchalter Cosmology First Prize awarded to Dr. Kyle Boone and Dr. Matthew McQuinn

February 6, 2024 | DiRAC News

The $10,000 First Prize was awarded to Dr. Kyle Boone and Dr. Matthew McQuinn of the University of Washington, for their work entitled “Solar System-scale interferometry on fast radio bursts could measure cosmic distances with sub-percent precision”, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and recognized by the judging panel for “proposing a new method for measuring […]

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