🚨Two nights ago @VRubinObs, the largest sky survey system in the world, took its first image. Absolutely gorgeous 🤩🤩.View quoted post on X
By last night it had sub-arcsec image quality across most of the 10deg^2 focal plane 🤯.
Congratulations to 100s of ppl working 20+ years for this moment!!
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The citizen scientists at @ActiveAsteroids announced the discoveries of 15 rare active asteroids! Congratulations to Colin Chandler & the team!
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We invite applications for the 2024 DiRAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington!
Deadline: December 5th, 2023.
Details: jobregister.aas.org/ad/9be8c8f3
Deadline: December 5th, 2023.
Details: jobregister.aas.org/ad/9be8c8f3
In a paper published Oct. 2 in Nature, an int'l team of astronomers including UW's @merrdiff reports on a first detailed assessment on how the new BlueWalker 3 satellite could impact astronomy.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
New paper including @phbernardinelli:
Highights:
• Orbital distribution of TNOs constrains Sun’s birth environment.
• Effects of close stellar encounter explain the radial profile of distant TNOs.
• Sun formed in a stellar cluster with a ~high number density of stars.
Highights:
• Orbital distribution of TNOs constrains Sun’s birth environment.
• Effects of close stellar encounter explain the radial profile of distant TNOs.
• Sun formed in a stellar cluster with a ~high number density of stars.
Radial distribution of distant trans-Neptunian objects points to Sun’s formation in a stellar cluster dlvr.it/StChsfView quoted post on X