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Loading contentAn optical survey observatory in Chile conducting the wide, fast, deep Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
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How Vera C. Rubin Observatory connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
An American astronomer whose study of galaxy rotation curves provided strong evidence for dark matter.
The barred spiral galaxy that contains the Solar System, the Sun, and all stars visible to the naked eye.
NSF's NOIRLab is the US national centre for ground-based, night-time optical and infrared astronomy, operating Gemini, CTIO, Kitt Peak, and the Rubin Observatory.
Visible light is the band the human eye sees and the traditional domain of optical telescopes.
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will image the entire southern sky every few nights for a decade.
The gravitational growth of tiny early density variations into the galaxies, clusters, and cosmic web we see today.
The statistical distribution of matter across the Universe on the largest scales.
The torrent of alerts the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will issue — millions per night — as it scans the whole southern sky every few nights, feeding community brokers that filter the deluge into the events worth chasing.
Dedicated survey telescopes scan the sky night after night for moving points of light — the near-Earth asteroids and comets. Catalina, Pan-STARRS, and ATLAS lead the search from the ground, and the Rubin Observatory will transform it.
The charge-coupled device, the detector that transformed optical astronomy — a silicon chip that converts light into electric charge with high efficiency and low noise, read out pixel by pixel. It replaced photographic plates and remains the standard optical detector; Rubin's camera is built from a mosaic of them.
Classifying the flood of alerts that a survey like Rubin issues — millions each night when something on the sky changes — quickly enough to catch the fleeting events worth following up. It is the problem the community alert brokers exist to solve.
Teaching and public engagement with astronomy — in classrooms, planetariums, science centres, and online — that turns a glance at the stars into understanding. Modern education draws directly on open data archives and survey imagery, letting anyone explore real observations.
The race to find the electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational-wave event — wide-field telescopes tiling the large localization region, imaging it repeatedly to catch the one new point of light that is the merger's afterglow among millions of unrelated sources.
Integrated, cloud-based environments that bring the analysis tools to the data. Platforms such as the Rubin Science Platform give researchers notebooks, catalogue databases, and image access alongside a survey's archive, so that discovery no longer requires downloading the data at all.
ALMA is an international radio observatory of millimeter and submillimeter antennas located on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico operated a 305-metre radio dish — for decades the largest single-dish radio telescope — until its collapse in 2020.
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile is a NOIRLab site whose telescopes carried out the Dark Energy Survey.
The next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays, an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes being built across two sites — one in the northern hemisphere on La Palma and one in the southern hemisphere in Chile — to catch the faint blue flashes that gamma rays make in the atmosphere. The largest such observatory ever built.
A proposed United States third-generation gravitational-wave observatory with arms up to forty kilometres long — a scaled-up successor to LIGO that, with the Einstein Telescope, would open the distant gravitational-wave universe.
A proposed European third-generation gravitational-wave observatory, to be built underground in a triangle of ten-kilometre arms. Its far greater sensitivity would detect compact-binary mergers across most of the observable universe.
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