‘We have a telescope!’ Rubin Observatory construction team installs its huge mirror The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been equipped with all three of its… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Tech leader Charles Simonyi provides a wide-angle view of the telescope that bears his family name Play Hubble. Webb. Chandra. Spitzer. Rubin. Roman. And now, Simonyi. With the ramping up of the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the… Read More
Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence… Read More
Scientists successfully test algorithm for identifying potentially hazardous asteroids A new technique for finding potentially hazardous asteroids before they find us has chalked up its first success. In this… Read More
How ‘Big Data’ could help SETI researchers intensify the search for alien civilizations Could far-off aliens be sending out signals telling us they exist? If so, how would we know where to look?… Read More
Next-gen telescope project honors astronomer Vera Rubin and billionaire backer Charles Simonyi The next great ground-based astronomical observatory, previously known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, has been named after the late… Read More
