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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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 »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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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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October 8, 2024 | DiRAC
Rubin Team successfully installed the combined primary/tertiary mirror! Check it out here.
Read More »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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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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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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August 15, 2024 | James Urton | UW News
“Current theories of galaxy formation and evolution cannot adequately explain the finding that clustered galaxies are larger than their identical counterparts in less dense regions of the universe,” said lead author Aritra Ghosh, a UW postdoctoral researcher in astronomy and an LSST-DA Catalyst Fellow with the UW’s DiRAC Institute.
Read More »August 11, 2024 | KOMO News
The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the night of Sunday, Aug. 11. DiRAC’s James Davenport is featured.
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