Stephanie Deppe, PhD

Well that's absolutely infuriating, I'm sorry that happened.

Edge-on spiral galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right. It's glowing with a bright core that's cut with the dark veins of dust clouds. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A smooth, cigar-shaped galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right glowing with a bright core. Two bright stars beam just to the upper left and lower right of the galaxy. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A face-on spiral with a bright core and sweeping arms knotted with blue clusters of star-forming regions. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A face-on spiral with a bright core and a single thin arm wrapping all the way around, almost looking like a ring. Two bright blue stars beam above and to the lower left of the galaxy, with a third yellow star to the lower right. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

Happy birthday, Vera Rubin! 🥳✨

What better way to celebrate than with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of galaxies SHE studied?

NGC 4343, 4526, 4535, and 4378 are just a few gems from our Cosmic Treasure Chest. Explore them and more at skyviewer.app 🔭🧪

Me: ok brain, we gotta do this application due tonight that we've barely started.

ADHD brain: no worries, I got this. 3 hours, no problem.

Me: we're behind, better double check the requirements.

*Deadline extended by three days*

ADHD brain: niiiiice, got two more days to relax 😎

Me: 😑😑😑

This is the most plausible explanation I've heard so far

The summary is it's never aliens, despite what he claims...

☠️ ugh haha

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Hi, it's me, a solar system scientist turned science communicator asking journalists for the thousandth time to stop giving a certain Harvard professor airtime about objects from outside our solar system.

I know you know the one.

!!!! Omg!

Ok well you gotta find some Detroit style pizza while you're there! And a coney dog if you're so inclined (they're not my favorite but they are quintessential Detroit)

Whatttt??? I grew up just north of Detroit!

But it does also work amazingly on a phone!!

I could play with the Rubin Skyviewer for hours. Off in one corner of the first image released is this rather lovely little galaxy car crash, which are always my favourites. 🔭

skyviewer.app/explorer

I just had a look around ... and ....

look at them twinsies.

LOOK AT THEM 😍

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪

LOVE those three!

Truly.

I love those two!

Oh that's a nice one!

Ooh that's a good one too!

LFG indeed, I cannot wait!

Thanks! :) it was an absolutely heroic effort with long hours by our incredibly talented team, from image production to comms to media outreach and everything in between. So glad they're the world's to enjoy now!

A large face-on galaxy in a cosmic tapestry of glittering galaxy jewels. The galaxy nearly looks like a ring surrounding a bright core. A few bright stars pepper the scene, and the background is filled with the smudges of distant galaxies of various colors against the black of space.

Holyyyyyy....I am a tired exhausted puddle on the floor. What a day for @vrubinobs.bsky.social! This observatory is incredible.

Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪

skyviewer.app

Officially tackling full reveal day with 4 hours of sleep, which is more than I expected to be honest.

JOIN US AT 11AM EDT!!!!

😂😂😂

I CAN'T I'M TOO EXCITED

I cannot express to you the hours, days, YEARS that went into these images across Rubin. They are spectacular. And truly just a peek. It has been the wildest few months of my life getting my small piece, the social media, ready for this.

You're not ready for 11am.

ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

The 4 biggest mysteries the new Vera Rubin Observatory could solve No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

My first story for National Geographic is out, and it's about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will spend the next decade scanning the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere, revealing all kinds of cosmic wonders: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

We're getting SO CLOSE to the reveal of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first images on June 23! So let's take a walk down memory lane 🎞️

Come with us through 10 memorable moments from the past 10+ years of building Rubin 🔭

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📷: H. Stockebrand