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The LSSTCam covers 21 times more area on the sky in every image

Testing, testing!

01/15/25

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just successfully completed a series of full-system tests using an engineering test camera.

01/18/24

A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder

Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.

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01/09/24

Science fiction inspires a new astrophysics university class

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class.

01/08/24

Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into the expansion of the universe

In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning.

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12/19/23

Bringing eclipsed women of astronomy and physics into the light

In Her Space, Her Time, physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led some of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy and physics.

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12/18/23

Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC

Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum entanglement.

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12/12/23

What’s so hard about measuring the strong force?

The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still a long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force.

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12/08/23

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.

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11/30/23

What is the electroweak force?

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.

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