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Starlink and Astronomy

04.4.2022

Meredith Rawls (University of Washington), research scientist for Rubin Observatory, was featured in a recent podcast interview about satellite constellations and astronomy, recorded on April 4th.

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Dark and quiet skies with Dr. Rawls

03.20.2022

Meredith Rawls, Rubin Data Management team member and research scientist at the University of Washington, was interviewed for an episode of the podcast Spacepod, in which she discusses the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy and Rubin Observatory, and how collaboration can lead to solutions. Listen to the episode at this link. 

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Why modern astronomy needs photometry, not just more light

12.20.2021

The Rubin Observatory LSST Camera filters were featured in a December 20th article, “Why modern astronomy needs photometry, not just more light,” available at this link. 

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The World’s Largest Digital Camera Is Almost Ready to Look Back in Time

11.22.2021

An article featuring Rubin Observatory and the LSST Camera appeared in Gizmodo on November 22nd.

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How to host an astronomically large data set

11.3.2021

Richard Dubois, SLAC senior staff scientist, discusses how SLAC—as Rubin Observatory’s US Data Facility—plans to address the challenge of hosting Rubin Observatory’s massive data set in an interview published on the SLAC website on November 3rd. 

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Telescopio futurista que se construye en Chile ya tiene dos récords Guinness

10.27.2021

An article highlighting the two Guinness World Records achieved by Rubin Observatory (for largest lens and highest resolution digital camera) appeared in El Día, a Chilean newspaper based in La Serena. Read the article (in Spanish) at this link. 

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SLAC in California Made the World’s Highest Resolution Camera Sensor

10.23.2021

Aaron Roodman, LSST Camera Program Leader at SLAC, was interviewed for a photography blog, The Phoblographer. The informative interview appeared in this post on October 24th; the interview was rebroadcast by Yahoo! Finance on the same day. 

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Chile amplía su ventanal al espacio

08.20.2021

An article (in Spanish) that features Rubin Observatory as one of the exciting new observatories being constructed in Chile was published in the Chilean La Tercera newspaper recently. The article, titled “Chile Widens its Window to the Universe”, was coordinated by the press office of the Chilean Minister of Science, who visited the Rubin construction site a few weeks ago.   

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Rubin Observatory Goes Open Source to Capture Galactic Data

06.11.2021

Rubin Observatory was featured in an article in Information Week about the open source time-series database, developed by InfluxDB, that will enable Rubin Observatory to gather and process massive amounts of visual data for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Frossie Economou and Angelo Fausti from Rubin’s Data Management Science Quality and Reliability Engineering (SQuaRE) team were interviewed for the story. 

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La ingeniera gringa que trabaja en observatorio y juega por La Serena

06.7.2021

Margaux Lopez, mechanical engineer with SLAC and a member of the Rubin Commissioning Team, recently made local and national newspapers in Chile. In addition to her work in Chile, helping Rubin Observatory get ready for LSSTCam on Cerro Pachón, Margaux is a member of the fútbol (soccer) Club Deportes La Serena, representing Rubin positively in the community. Read the article (in Spanish) at this link. 

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Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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