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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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)!
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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, […]
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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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