Alan Boyle<p>The University of Washington was one of the founding partners in the effort to build the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RubinObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RubinObservatory</span></a> - and now that Rubin's first pictures of the cosmos have been released, UW astronomers are taking a victory lap and looking forward to the discoveries to come. <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2025/university-of-washington-rubin-observatory/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">geekwire.com/2025/university-o</span><span class="invisible">f-washington-rubin-observatory/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a></p>
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Anthony Horton<p>A story on how Australia is contributing to the Vera Rubin Observatory via the data wrangling experts in Data Central, part of the AAO, at Macquarie University. And also Swinburne.</p><p><a href="https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/media-releases/australian-data-experts-to-support-worlds-largest-sky-survey" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lighthouse.mq.edu.au/media-rel</span><span class="invisible">eases/australian-data-experts-to-support-worlds-largest-sky-survey</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/VeraRubinObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VeraRubinObservatory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RubinObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RubinObservatory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a></p>
Anthony Horton<p>3 images and a video released early by the Vera Rubin Observatory as an appetiser for the big "First Look" event starting in just under 9 hours:<br><a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2025/get-a-sneak-peek-at-the-rubin-observatorys-gems/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">geekwire.com/2025/get-a-sneak-</span><span class="invisible">peek-at-the-rubin-observatorys-gems/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RubinObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RubinObservatory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a></p>
Cosmic Log<p>Software predicts a bonanza of solar system discoveries<br>A new type of computer simulation predicts that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the solar system over the course of the coming decade.</p><p>The discovery campaign, which is due to begin in earnest later this year, should expand th<br><a href="https://cosmiclog.com/2025/06/03/software-predicts-a-bonanza-of-solar-system-discoveries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cosmiclog.com/2025/06/03/softw</span><span class="invisible">are-predicts-a-bonanza-of-solar-system-discoveries/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GeekWire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeekWire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RubinObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RubinObservatory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AsteroidInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidInstitute</span></a>’s Asteroid ☄️ Discovery Analysis and Mapping (<a href="https://spacey.space/tags/ADAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADAM</span></a>) Platform has been in preparation for the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.social/@VRubinObs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>VRubinObs</span></a></span>’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (<a href="https://spacey.space/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a>) survey 🔭, which will produce about 20 terabytes of data 💽 every night <a href="https://b612foundation.org/chelyabinsk-and-the-changing-landscape-of-planetary-defense/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">b612foundation.org/chelyabinsk</span><span class="invisible">-and-the-changing-landscape-of-planetary-defense/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Chelyabinsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chelyabinsk</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/PlanetaryDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetaryDefense</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AsteroidThreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidThreat</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>The <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.social/@VRubinObs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>VRubinObs</span></a></span> 220-ton mount takes 5 seconds ⏱️ to move to its next position.<br>Rubin will do near-real-time processing of new images every night and release world-public alerts within 60 seconds for objects that have moved ☄️ or changed. Every night, Rubin Observatory will produce 20 terabytes of data 💽 <a href="https://rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-rubin-works/technology" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rubinobservatory.org/explore/h</span><span class="invisible">ow-rubin-works/technology</span></a></p><p>🗺️ <a href="https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Rubin+Observatory&layer=Esri+Satellite" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Ru</span><span class="invisible">bin+Observatory&layer=Esri+Satellite</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Rubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rubin</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Observatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Observatory</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a></p>
Daniel Pomarède<p>NOIRLab image of the week: From Cerro Pachón to the Moon</p><p>Release date: July 31, 2024<br>Credit: Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand<br><a href="https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2431a/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw</span><span class="invisible">2431a/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telescope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NOIRLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOIRLab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CerroPach%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CerroPachón</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chili" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chili</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VeraRubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VeraRubin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/observatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>observatory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a></p>
stux⚡<p>Up Close With the Completed 3.2-Gigapixel <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Camera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Camera</span></a></p><p>Engineers at the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SLAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAC</span></a> National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> and Time camera. The device is the world's largest digital camera and will be the centerpiece of a 10-year mission to map the night sky from the Vera C. Rubin <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Observatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Observatory</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chile</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FtSJ6D4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FtSJ6D</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p>
Prof Stephen Serjeant<p>Hello <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> ! I still feel <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NewHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewHere</span></a> so here’s an <a href="https://mas.to/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> . I’m an <a href="https://mas.to/tags/extragalactic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extragalactic</span></a> astronomer at the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenUniversity</span></a> in the UK, interested in submm blobs, strong gravitational lensing, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> applications, crowdsourced data mining (<a href="https://mas.to/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a>), and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a>. I do fun stuff in the European Open Science Cloud <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EOSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EOSC</span></a> and work with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Euclid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Euclid</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LSST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSST</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DESC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DESC</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SLSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLSC</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Herschel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Herschel</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ALMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALMA</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HST</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JWST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JWST</span></a> and pretty much anything that’ll give me observational data tbh</p>
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