If there’s a hidden world in the solar system, a new telescope should find it
Read More »We May Be on the Brink of Finding the Real Planet Nine
December 18, 2024 | SciAm | Robin George Andrews
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More than 10,000 supernovae counted in stellar census
December 6, 2024 | UW News | James Urton
On Dec. 4, ZTF researchers — including astronomers at the University of Washington — announced that that they have identified more than 10,000 of these stellar events, the largest number ever identified by an astronomical survey.
Read More »DiRAC Annual Appeal
December 3, 2024 | DiRAC
I’m excited to reach out to you today as we close out another year of groundbreaking scientific work. Our focus for 2025: realizing the 20 years of investment in Rubin by producing the first ground-breaking science from this paradigm-changing telescope.
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Open Position, Apply Before December 31, 2024
November 25, 2024 | DiRAC News
2025 Joint DiRAC Fellowship and Baum Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovative Astronomy is open now and it is due December 31, 2024. DiRAC is creating an environment where scientists can harness interdisciplinary expertise to solve some of the most difficult questions facing Astronomy today.
Read More »Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
October 28, 2024 | CNN | Jacopo Prisco
On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets.
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‘We have a telescope!’ Rubin Observatory construction team installs its huge mirror
October 11, 2024 | GeekWire | Alan Boyle
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been equipped with all three of its mirrors, plus a camera for good measure.
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Congratulation to the Rubin Team!
October 8, 2024 | DiRAC
Rubin Team successfully installed the combined primary/tertiary mirror! Check it out here.
Read More »Tech leader Charles Simonyi provides a wide-angle view of the telescope that bears his family name
September 30, 2024 | Alan Boyle | GeekWire
With the ramping up of the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Microsoft software architect Charles Simonyi joins a select group of scientists and technologists, policymakers and philanthropists who have had world-class telescopes and observatories named after them.
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The biggest galaxies live in our universe’s supercluster ‘cities’
September 10, 2024 | Monisha Ravisetti | Space.com
“Over the last decade, many astronomers, like me, have conducted painstaking studies to develop trust in machine learning.” Aritra Ghosh, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, is one of those astronomers.
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Decoding the universe
September 3, 2024 | UW Be Boundless
UW astronomy undergrads use cutting-edge coding skills to help scientists make the most of discoveries from a revolutionary new telescope.
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