Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory using the world’s largest digital camera! 🔭🧪 After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making! With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️ 🧵

We're excited to announce our Summer Research Prize program again this year, which supports undergrad research for UW astronomy students! Join us today in making this program a success: dirac.astro.washington.edu/supporting-t...

We're excited to announce our Summer Research Prize program again this year, which supports undergrad research for UW astronomy students! Join us today in making this program a success: dirac.astro.washington.edu/supporting-t...

Hello BlueSky, we’re the Vera C. Rubin Observatory! 👋 Rubin is a new facility being built on Cerro Pachón in Chile. When complete, Rubin will image the sky every 3-4 nights for 10 years, using an 8.4m telescope & 3200 Mpx car-sized camera 🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org

Do you have a (social) scientific or technical background and are you excited to support scientific innovation and inclusion in a unique way? Do you enjoy meeting new people and building new relationships? Come work with me at LSST Discovery Alliance! lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/director-for...

Hello BlueSky. We're excited to be here, celebrating the work done by our team at the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology - aka DiRAC! Check out our 2023 Annual Report to see what we've been up to... dirac.astro.washington.edu/annual-repor...