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5000 Comets Discovered Using Space-Based Sun Observatory
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...
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L3Harris’ Rochester team plays key role in groundbreaking space telescope
L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.
World’s Largest Space Camera Snaps Breathtaking First Photos of the Universe
Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world’s largest camera
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...
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Two spacecraft created their first images of an artificial solar eclipse
The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.
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kottke.org posts about Rubin Observatory
Astronomy is following in the path of scientific fields like biology, which today is awash in DNA sequences, and particle physics, in which scientists must sift through torrents of debris from ...
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NSF, DOE’s Rubin Observatory will create a massive data trove. A cloud-based platform and nightly alerts will deliver it to researchers.
Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...
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Distant nebulae star in one of the first images from the Rubin Observatory
These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.