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‘It's going to be awesome': How the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will survey space and time
Originally named the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed to honor the great Vera Rubin, who died in 2016 and was a pioneering researcher on the universe’s composition.
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Big Rockets, a big telescope and big changes in space await in 2025
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honour Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Rubin's work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark matter ...
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Deep Astrometric Standards and Galactic Structure
https://doi.org/10.1086/498072 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/498072 ABSTRACT The advent of next‐generation imaging telescopes, such as the Large Synoptic ...
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Automating Discovery and Classification of Transients and Variable Stars in the Synoptic Survey Era
We discuss future directions of this approach, including the possible roles of crowdsourcing and the scalability of machine learning to future surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST ...