The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the night of Sunday, Aug. 11. DiRAC’s James Davenport is featured.
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August 11, 2024 | KOMO News
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Major U.S. Grant Awarded to CPS-led Satellite Mitigation Project
August 9, 2024 | NOIRLab
Meredith Rawls, CPS SatHub Co-Lead and DiRAC Research Scientist, has helped secure this new major NSF award for studying satellite mitigation in astronomy surveys.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Includes Bremerton Resident
July 30, 2024 | Kitsap Sun
Erin Howard (DiRAC researcher, and member of the Rubin Observatory Data Management Team) is featured in this profile by the Kitsap Sun, by Audrey Nelson.
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A Stellar Evening at the UW Planetarium
June 18, 2024 | Nikolina Horvat
Last Wednesday, on June 12, 2024, the UW planetarium became the epicenter of excitement and discovery, DiRAC hosted an event that left attendees starry-eyed and inspired. The evening was filled with captivating presentations about current and anticipated discoveries with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory which is currently in the last phase of the construction in […]
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Announcing the 2024 Summer Research Prize Winners
June 10, 2024 | James Davenport, DiRAC
I am so excited to announce our 2024 cohort of Summer Research Prize winners, whose work spans a wide range of astrophysics!
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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“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)!
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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 […]
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