Around two dozen people sit and stand at a long desk with computer monitors out of view. Several people are smiling or have their mouths open in amazement. One person in the back has their arms raised in celebration.
Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory using the world’s largest digital camera! 🔭🧪
After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making!
With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️
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We're excited to announce our Summer Research Prize program again this year, which supports undergrad research for UW astronomy students! Join us today in making this program a success:
dirac.astro.washington.edu/supporting-t...
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We're excited to announce our Summer Research Prize program again this year, which supports undergrad research for UW astronomy students! Join us today in making this program a success:
dirac.astro.washington.edu/supporting-t...
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Welcome!!!
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Rubin Observatory in a golden sunset, with its silver dome glinting in the light of the setting Sun. We see the observatory's long white service building and vertical silver dome such that the white service building appears pointed slightly to our left. To the left, the brilliantly setting Sun glows bright orange, illuminating the landscape in a golden glow. The Chilean desert mountain ridges become more and more opaque as they recede into the distance, creating a layered look.
Hello BlueSky, we’re the Vera C. Rubin Observatory! 👋
Rubin is a new facility being built on Cerro Pachón in Chile. When complete, Rubin will image the sky every 3-4 nights for 10 years, using an 8.4m telescope & 3200 Mpx car-sized camera 🔭🧪
🔗: rubinobservatory.org
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Hiring a Director for Strategic Engagement | LSST Discovery Alliance
Posted Date: January 19, 2024
Do you have a (social) scientific or technical background and are you excited to support scientific innovation and inclusion in a unique way? Do you enjoy meeting new people and building new relationships? Come work with me at LSST Discovery Alliance! lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/director-for...
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Hello BlueSky. We're excited to be here, celebrating the work done by our team at the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology - aka DiRAC!
Check out our 2023 Annual Report to see what we've been up to...
dirac.astro.washington.edu/annual-repor...
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The Space Telescope Science Institute is the Science Operations Center for Webb, Hubble, and the upcoming Roman space telescopes, & Mission Operations Center for Webb. We help humanity explore the universe with advanced space telescopes and data archive.
Branch Manager at Space Telescope Science Institute working in the MAST archive. Astronomy PhD. Studies stars and exoplanets. Loves programming. Opinions are my own. He/Him/His
Digestible summaries of the latest astronomy research. Written by an international team of grad students for undergrads! Supported by the @AAS_Office. #scicomm
DiRAC fellow @ UW, PhD from Penn. Discoverer of minor planets and C/2014 UN271, Brazilian, coffee dependent, geek. He/him/ele, pt-br/en
Astrophysicist - Schmidt A.I. in Science Fellow - Oxford Uni - she/they
Sky surveys
Exploding stars
Hungry black holes
AI Literacy
Beatrice Tinsley Lecturer 2021
Caroline Herschel Prize 2024
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Astrophysicist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics & U. Washington.
Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titan’s biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com
Planetdr.26 on signal
Get ready for a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with Rubin Observatory!
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I study how galaxies evolve and quench, with JWST and Lensing. Baum Fellow for Innovative Astronony, UWashington. Collective action is the path forward. He/him
Professor of Astrophysics: Galaxies, Black Holes, the Changing Sky. Also Zooniverse humanitarian and disaster relief lead. People first, then science. She/her
The mission of the American Astronomical Society is to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe as a diverse and inclusive astronomical community.
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Exploration scientist, engineer, artist. Building things for space inspired by things in the sea, and things for the sea inspired by space. Discovered a few moons along the way.
CHNOPS in ferruginous saline. Multicellular aerobic chemoheterotroph; symbiont of photosynthetic autotrophs. Descendant of stardust; aspiring good ancestor. Senior Editor, Scientific American. Signal: @lee_billings.81
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State.
Son, father, partner, scientist, teacher, student, human, Earthling.
Mostly posting astronomy. Mostly.
European Space Agency Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. Team Lead for the MIRI instrument on JWST. Runner, dog mum, cyclist. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Opinions my own.
Dad, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Louisville. He/Him/hey you. Opinions are my own. As are the typos.
Astronomy, datascience, ethics & occasional US/EU politics.
Retired computational astrophysicist
Working on JAX at Google DeepMind
(he/him)
https://dfm.io // https://github.com/dfm
