Rubin LSST:UK
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LSST:UK is the UK's major contribution to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This next-generation sky survey will #CaptureTheCosmos https://www.lsst.ac.uk/
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New #Euclid image drop from @esa.int and @ec-euclid.bsky.social! 😍
Meet LDN 1641, a ‘dark cloud’ about 1300 light-years from Earth, observed by Euclid back in 2023 to test its guiding systems. ⬛️☁️
Meet LDN 1641, a ‘dark cloud’ about 1300 light-years from Earth, observed by Euclid back in 2023 to test its guiding systems. ⬛️☁️
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New #Euclid image drop from @esa.int and @ec-euclid.bsky.social! 😍
Meet LDN 1641, a ‘dark cloud’ about 1300 light-years from Earth, observed by Euclid back in 2023 to test its guiding systems. ⬛️☁️
Meet LDN 1641, a ‘dark cloud’ about 1300 light-years from Earth, observed by Euclid back in 2023 to test its guiding systems. ⬛️☁️
Kilonovae are tricky to detect, due to their faintness and fast decaying nature. In a new blog, two members of the team that built Lasair, a @vrubinobs.bsky.social community broker, explain how Lasair is equipped to hunt down kilonovae. 🔭
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Finding Kilonovae with Lasair
Stephen Smartt and Roy Williams There are around a dozen binary neutron systems in our galaxy, with the discovery in 1974 of the first example. The Hulse-Taylor binary is a pulsar and a neutron star ...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Kilonovae are tricky to detect, due to their faintness and fast decaying nature. In a new blog, two members of the team that built Lasair, a @vrubinobs.bsky.social community broker, explain how Lasair is equipped to hunt down kilonovae. 🔭
community.lsst.org/t/finding-ki...
community.lsst.org/t/finding-ki...
Did you know? When scientists began brainstorming @vrubinobs.bsky.social 3 decades ago, they had the title Dark Matter Telescope in mind? With its wide field of view and sensitivity to the faintest objects, Rubin will reveal how dark matter and dark energy shape the universe. 🔭 #darkmatterday.
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Did you know? When scientists began brainstorming @vrubinobs.bsky.social 3 decades ago, they had the title Dark Matter Telescope in mind? With its wide field of view and sensitivity to the faintest objects, Rubin will reveal how dark matter and dark energy shape the universe. 🔭 #darkmatterday.
Congratulations to @4most-eu.bsky.social
which has achieved First Light, splitting the light into 18,000 spellbinding colour components. 🎉 Read more about this multi-tasking telescope, which will collect the largest ever spectroscopic sample of supernovae. 🔭
tinyurl.com/2wnw86zd
which has achieved First Light, splitting the light into 18,000 spellbinding colour components. 🎉 Read more about this multi-tasking telescope, which will collect the largest ever spectroscopic sample of supernovae. 🔭
tinyurl.com/2wnw86zd
Portsmouth and Southampton scientists help secure the first capture of light in all its colours from cosmic objects
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October 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Congratulations to @4most-eu.bsky.social
which has achieved First Light, splitting the light into 18,000 spellbinding colour components. 🎉 Read more about this multi-tasking telescope, which will collect the largest ever spectroscopic sample of supernovae. 🔭
tinyurl.com/2wnw86zd
which has achieved First Light, splitting the light into 18,000 spellbinding colour components. 🎉 Read more about this multi-tasking telescope, which will collect the largest ever spectroscopic sample of supernovae. 🔭
tinyurl.com/2wnw86zd
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October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Listen up! The @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social
Career Development Scholarship provides full PhD funding for students from a Black heritage, including mixed Black background. Deadline to apply is 24 November 2025. UK & international prospective students can apply. 🔭 www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
Career Development Scholarship provides full PhD funding for students from a Black heritage, including mixed Black background. Deadline to apply is 24 November 2025. UK & international prospective students can apply. 🔭 www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
October 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Listen up! The @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social
Career Development Scholarship provides full PhD funding for students from a Black heritage, including mixed Black background. Deadline to apply is 24 November 2025. UK & international prospective students can apply. 🔭 www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
Career Development Scholarship provides full PhD funding for students from a Black heritage, including mixed Black background. Deadline to apply is 24 November 2025. UK & international prospective students can apply. 🔭 www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
"Work hard, persevere, but don't be afraid to try something else if it stops being fun." Words of wisdom from LSST:UK project Leader Bob Mann of @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social in our latest 'Spotlight' interview. 🔭
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
In the Spotlight: Bob Mann
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October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Work hard, persevere, but don't be afraid to try something else if it stops being fun." Words of wisdom from LSST:UK project Leader Bob Mann of @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social in our latest 'Spotlight' interview. 🔭
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Rubin Comet Catchers is the FIRST citizen science project using data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social and the SECOND most popular project to launch on @zooniverse.bsky.social this year. @chrislintott.bsky.social explains more in our news section. 🔭
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
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Rubin Comet Catchers passes 2 million classifications
www.lsst.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Rubin Comet Catchers is the FIRST citizen science project using data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social and the SECOND most popular project to launch on @zooniverse.bsky.social this year. @chrislintott.bsky.social explains more in our news section. 🔭
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
An exciting and positive read – we're happy to see the piece give a shoutout to rising talent in #astronomy, including Astha whom we interviewed recently about her LSST:UK work too.
Great article featuring some of our Surrey astrophysics students! Unfortunately they seem to have been attributed to the wrong supervisor, but wonderful to see them talking passionately about the work they are doing with @payeldas.bsky.social @derkal.bsky.social and Noelia Noël 🔭☄️🧪
Can a satellite unlock the secrets of the universe? 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
An exciting and positive read – we're happy to see the piece give a shoutout to rising talent in #astronomy, including Astha whom we interviewed recently about her LSST:UK work too.
Get to know the people working in the UK to make the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST happen. We caught up with @cfrohmaier.bsky.social to find out more about his work with @4most-eu.bsky.social TiDES and what he's looking forward to most about the Rubin survey 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
October 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Get to know the people working in the UK to make the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST happen. We caught up with @cfrohmaier.bsky.social to find out more about his work with @4most-eu.bsky.social TiDES and what he's looking forward to most about the Rubin survey 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Get a peek behind the scenes at @vrubinobs.bsky.social . Huge screens, live feeds, gallons of strong coffee... welcome to the Control Room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It's where the training, remote observing, and real-time support happens. 🔭
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Remote Eyes on the Sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin Control Room | Rubin Observatory
With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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September 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Get a peek behind the scenes at @vrubinobs.bsky.social . Huge screens, live feeds, gallons of strong coffee... welcome to the Control Room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It's where the training, remote observing, and real-time support happens. 🔭
rubinobservatory.org/news/slac-co...
rubinobservatory.org/news/slac-co...
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Celestial alignment captured by @peterlewis55.bsky.social this afternoon! Behold the Moon, on its journey around the Earth, moving to temporarily block out the light from planet Venus. 🔭🧪
Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!
Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!
A few captures as Venus and the 5% waning gibbous Moon moved until the planet disappeared behind. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 2/2
September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Celestial alignment captured by @peterlewis55.bsky.social this afternoon! Behold the Moon, on its journey around the Earth, moving to temporarily block out the light from planet Venus. 🔭🧪
Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!
Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!
We sat down with team member Astha to find out what fuels her passion for the Universe. Learn what she'd be doing if she wasn't exploring the low surface brightness frontier. Find out more in our interview: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09... 🔭
September 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We sat down with team member Astha to find out what fuels her passion for the Universe. Learn what she'd be doing if she wasn't exploring the low surface brightness frontier. Find out more in our interview: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09... 🔭
Over the next decade, the @vrubinobs.bsky.social survey will collect about 500 petabytes of data, equivalent to half a million 4K-UHD Blu-ray disks. Find out more about Rubin's extraordinary data demands in this interview with @markgbeckett.bsky.social 🔭: www.space.com/technology/c...
Cosmic images from the world's largest digital camera are so big they require a 'data butler'
The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Over the next decade, the @vrubinobs.bsky.social survey will collect about 500 petabytes of data, equivalent to half a million 4K-UHD Blu-ray disks. Find out more about Rubin's extraordinary data demands in this interview with @markgbeckett.bsky.social 🔭: www.space.com/technology/c...
Lasair is one of the 7 independent brokers that will ingest and process @vrubinobs.bsky.social data, and serve astronomical alerts to the broader scientific community. We asked Lasair team member Roy Williams of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social what inspires his work 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lasair is one of the 7 independent brokers that will ingest and process @vrubinobs.bsky.social data, and serve astronomical alerts to the broader scientific community. We asked Lasair team member Roy Williams of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social what inspires his work 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
Have you downloaded the @vrubinobs.bsky.social Orbitviewer App yet? It gives you access to detailed information about planets, dwarf planets, near-earth objects, main belt asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects, comets, interstellar objects, and much more. Start exploring now! orbitviewer.app/en/ 🔭
August 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Have you downloaded the @vrubinobs.bsky.social Orbitviewer App yet? It gives you access to detailed information about planets, dwarf planets, near-earth objects, main belt asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects, comets, interstellar objects, and much more. Start exploring now! orbitviewer.app/en/ 🔭
Aside from Ghostbusters, is the secondary mirror on @vrubinobs.bsky.social the coolest thing ever made in New York? Corning Inc, its co-makers, have been nominated for the Coolest Thing Made in New York Manufacturing Contest! 🔭 Find out more about the mirror: rubinobservatory.org/news/seconda...
August 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Aside from Ghostbusters, is the secondary mirror on @vrubinobs.bsky.social the coolest thing ever made in New York? Corning Inc, its co-makers, have been nominated for the Coolest Thing Made in New York Manufacturing Contest! 🔭 Find out more about the mirror: rubinobservatory.org/news/seconda...
We think there's no such thing as a typical scientist. Our new 'In the spotlight' series goes behind the scenes to get to know some of the individuals working on the
@vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST. First up, Dr Elham Saremi of
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭
@vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST. First up, Dr Elham Saremi of
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭
In the spotlight: Elham Saremi
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August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We think there's no such thing as a typical scientist. Our new 'In the spotlight' series goes behind the scenes to get to know some of the individuals working on the
@vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST. First up, Dr Elham Saremi of
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭
@vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST. First up, Dr Elham Saremi of
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭
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We're going to need some more hot beverages 🥶☕️
Cerro Pachón got its third winter storm of the season this past weekend, getting ~30cm of snow! 😱 Many thanks to our hard-working crews for getting the roads safe and clear! 🔭🧪
📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
Cerro Pachón got its third winter storm of the season this past weekend, getting ~30cm of snow! 😱 Many thanks to our hard-working crews for getting the roads safe and clear! 🔭🧪
📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
August 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We're going to need some more hot beverages 🥶☕️
Cerro Pachón got its third winter storm of the season this past weekend, getting ~30cm of snow! 😱 Many thanks to our hard-working crews for getting the roads safe and clear! 🔭🧪
📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
Cerro Pachón got its third winter storm of the season this past weekend, getting ~30cm of snow! 😱 Many thanks to our hard-working crews for getting the roads safe and clear! 🔭🧪
📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
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BBC News next to appreciate the curtains, talking @vrubinobs.bsky.social and Comet 3I/ATLAS
About to be on Sky News. Hope they like the Tucson hotel curtains!
August 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
BBC News next to appreciate the curtains, talking @vrubinobs.bsky.social and Comet 3I/ATLAS
7 billion-year-old comet caught on camera! @vrubinobs.bsky.social is already helping reveal the secrets of the Universe. Hear from @megschwamb.bsky.social on how a serendipitous event should help us better understand Comet 3I/Atlas : www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭
Comet 3I/ATLAS caught on Rubin camera
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August 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
7 billion-year-old comet caught on camera! @vrubinobs.bsky.social is already helping reveal the secrets of the Universe. Hear from @megschwamb.bsky.social on how a serendipitous event should help us better understand Comet 3I/Atlas : www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭
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If you couldn't study science at school, or the teaching was bad, don't worry, you could still become a leading scientist and even an Astronomer Royal.
My colleague @pallabg.bsky.social story on Prof Michele Dougherty's new appointment and her brilliant career
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My colleague @pallabg.bsky.social story on Prof Michele Dougherty's new appointment and her brilliant career
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
If you couldn't study science at school, or the teaching was bad, don't worry, you could still become a leading scientist and even an Astronomer Royal.
My colleague @pallabg.bsky.social story on Prof Michele Dougherty's new appointment and her brilliant career
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My colleague @pallabg.bsky.social story on Prof Michele Dougherty's new appointment and her brilliant career
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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After a long and exhausting but stimulating week at the Rubin Community Workshop, I got to talk about some of the first science results coming from @vrubinobs.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today (24 minutes in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today - 02/08/2025 - BBC Sounds
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
After a long and exhausting but stimulating week at the Rubin Community Workshop, I got to talk about some of the first science results coming from @vrubinobs.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today (24 minutes in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Blimey, that’s a line up! If you’re at #latitude today, come see my three brilliant guests, and a little bit of me. On tomorrow with the brilliant Steve Pretty too.
July 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Blimey, that’s a line up! If you’re at #latitude today, come see my three brilliant guests, and a little bit of me. On tomorrow with the brilliant Steve Pretty too.
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ICYMI, a bunch of awesome @vrubinobs.bsky.social colleagues pulled together a lightning fast, highly custom analysis of a new interstellar object with very early commissioning data
Once we're fully up and running, science is going to be off the hook
You're not ready 🔭
Once we're fully up and running, science is going to be off the hook
You're not ready 🔭
It's paper day! The first science paper with data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social's survey camera, the mighty LSSTCam, is a VERY quick turnaround of Rubin's observations thus far of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. ☄️
Chandler et al., submitted 🔭
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Chandler et al., submitted 🔭
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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activity of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), with the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin ...
arxiv.org
July 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
ICYMI, a bunch of awesome @vrubinobs.bsky.social colleagues pulled together a lightning fast, highly custom analysis of a new interstellar object with very early commissioning data
Once we're fully up and running, science is going to be off the hook
You're not ready 🔭
Once we're fully up and running, science is going to be off the hook
You're not ready 🔭