I am so excited to announce our 2024 cohort of Summer Research Prize winners, whose work spans a wide range of astrophysics!
Read More »Announcing the 2024 Summer Research Prize Winners
June 10, 2024 | James Davenport, DiRAC
News
Huge Survey vs. Tiny Space Junk
June 3, 2024 | AAS Nova
As construction continues on the Vera Rubin Observatory, the skies above its mountaintop home grow more and more crowded following every rocket launch. Astronomers, conscious of the plans for mega-constellations of new satellites in the next few years, are rightfully worried: will these satellites and the tiny bits of debris that come with every deployment […]
Read More »
Lucy in the Sky with Debris
May 31, 2024 |
Earlier this year, DiRAC Fellows Meredith Rawls, Dino Bektešević, and Colin Orion Chandler contributed interviews and satellite-streaked telescope images to an interdisciplinary research and visual art project on the visibility of orbital debris by artist Isabella Ong and curator Seet Yun Teng. The project included an exhibition during April 2024 in Singapore. Isabella originally reached […]
Read More »
LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory in Chile, Paving the Way for Cosmic Exploration
May 22, 2024 | Rubin Observatory News
The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, where it will soon help unlock the Universe’s mysteries
Read More »
“Starman” Fraser Wins Teaching Award
May 21, 2024 | UW News
Congratulations to Oliver Fraser, an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Astronomy Department, for receiving the Honors Excellence in Teaching Award (HETA)!
Read More »
Algorithms pioneered at DiRAC help Asteroid Institute and Google Identify 27,500 New Asteroids
April 30, 2024 | DiRAC News
The Solar System group at the DiRAC Institute at the University of Washington has dedicated efforts to advancing asteroid and comet discovery algorithms for large datasets and next generation surveys. Our enduring partnership with the Asteroid Institute has yielded significant progress, resulting in the development of a novel algorithm known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery […]
Read More »Colin Orion Chandler featured on the AAS YouTube channel’s author series
April 30, 2024 | DiRAC News
Husky Giving Day 2024: Support astronomy students today!
March 25, 2024 |
Your contribution on Husky Giving Day (HGD) is a catalyst for a student-centered initiative led by DiRAC and the Department of Astronomy! Make a gift today! Join us in our mission to achieve 20 gifts before April 4th and unlock a $10,000 challenge. Every contribution, regardless of the amount, brings us closer to our goal. […]
Read More »Citizen scientist group finds 15 rare ‘active asteroids’
March 19, 2024 | UW News
Citizen Scientists Uncover Hidden Secrets of the Solar System: “Active Asteroids” Project Reveals Dozens of Rare Celestial Bodies
March 18, 2024 | Colin Orion Chandler
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, […]
Read More »