A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects will be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.
Get ready to join us on June 23, 2025 as we unveil the first spectacular imagery from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and celebrate the start of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with the world’s newest and most powerful survey telescope.
Although astronomers have ruled out a smash-up between Earth and an asteroid known as 2024 YR4 in the year 2032, the building-sized space rock still has a chance of hitting the moon.
DiRAC’s James Davenport describes new efforts to use the upcoming Rubin Observatory to help SETI.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
UW astronomy undergrads use cutting-edge coding skills to help scientists make the most of discoveries from a revolutionary new telescope.
The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the night of Sunday, Aug. 11. DiRAC’s James Davenport is featured.