Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Sunset at Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón in Chile.Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek The Camera and Observatory The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize how we understand our night sky and beyond. After the world’s largest camera was completed in April 2024, carefully transported to Cerro Pachón in Chile,
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Determining the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy. Despite this, it remains an extremely challenging problem to solve, as stellar ages cannot be ascertained by simply observing stars. University of Toronto astronomers have developed
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in northern Chile. By A&S News New research from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy from the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring light that has travelled for almost 14 billion years to reach a telescope high
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is the long, black cylinder mounted on the Mayall Telescope. Photo: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab. By A&S News Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to observe 15 million galaxies and quasars, a team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and
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