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The seven-year photobomb: Distant star’s dimming was likely a ‘dusty’ companion getting in the way, astronomers say

January 10, 2023 | UW News | James Urton

UW doctoral student Anastasios “Andy” Tzanidakis announced the discovery of a rare type of binary star system. Tzanidakis and Dr. James Davenport, a UW research assistant professor of astronomy and associate director of the DiRAC Institute, were investigating why the star Gaia17bpp had gradually brightened over a 2 1/2-year period. In some investigative follow-up work, […]

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From Artemis to Webb, take a look back — and a look ahead — at the year’s top trends in aerospace

December 30, 2022 | Alan Boyle | GeekWire

A few years from now, we just might look back at 2022 as Year One for a new age in aerospace: It was the year when NASA’s next-generation space telescope delivered the goods, when NASA’s moon rocket aced its first flight test, and when an all-electric passenger plane built from the ground up took to […]

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Big Data in the Night Sky

December 1, 2022 | Nancy Joseph | UW News

In conversation with James Davenport and 2022 DiRAC Research Prize recipients read more about Vera C. Rubin Observatory and important role of the scientists at the UW’s DiRAC Institute.

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Space, our final dumping ground. Can we clean it up?

October 24, 2022 | KUOW

Last week, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced a new bill calling for the removal of “space junk.” The Orbital Sustainability Act, or the ORBITS Act, aims to promote the development of technology and methods to clean up rocket and satellite debris orbiting Earth.

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LSSTC Catalyst Postdoctoral Fellowship

October 4, 2022 | DiRAC NEWS

Applications are open for the LSSTC Catalyst Postdoctoral Fellowship. UW is one of the eligible host institutions for this exciting program. The “Ideas Lab” virtual info session will be held Oct 6th. Register here.

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The time-lapse telescope that will transform our view of the universe

September 2, 2022 | New Scientist

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will scan the whole southern sky every three nights. From short-lived supernovae to alien megastructures, here are some of the fleeting cosmic phenomena it could capture

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Inside the hunt for mysterious ‘twilight’ asteroids

August 31, 2022 | National Geographic

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NASA’s new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies

July 14, 2022 | King5

King5 talks with Thomas Quinn, UW Astronomy, about James Webb Space Telescope’s new images released on July 12th by NASA.

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How ‘Big Data’ could help SETI researchers intensify the search for alien civilizations

June 23, 2022 | GeekWire, Alan Boyle

University of Washington astronomer James Davenport and his colleagues lay out the plan in a research paper submitted to the arXiv pre-print server this month. The idea is also the subject of a talk that Davenport’s giving this week at the Breakthrough Discuss conference in California.

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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.

May 31, 2022 | New York Times

The discovery of 104 asteroids by the Asteroid Institute, using the THOR algorithm running on our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) cloud-based astrodynamics platform!

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