Get a peek behind the scenes at @vrubinobs.bsky.social . Huge screens, live feeds, gallons of strong coffee... welcome to the Control Room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It's where the training, remote observing, and real-time support happens. 🔭 rubinobservatory.org/news/slac-co...

Celestial alignment captured by @peterlewis55.bsky.social this afternoon! Behold the Moon, on its journey around the Earth, moving to temporarily block out the light from planet Venus. 🔭🧪 Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!

We sat down with team member Astha to find out what fuels her passion for the Universe. Learn what she'd be doing if she wasn't exploring the low surface brightness frontier. Find out more in our interview: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09... 🔭

Over the next decade, the @vrubinobs.bsky.social survey will collect about 500 petabytes of data, equivalent to half a million 4K-UHD Blu-ray disks. Find out more about Rubin's extraordinary data demands in this interview with @markgbeckett.bsky.social 🔭: www.space.com/technology/c...

Lasair is one of the 7 independent brokers that will ingest and process @vrubinobs.bsky.social data, and serve astronomical alerts to the broader scientific community. We asked Lasair team member Roy Williams of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social what inspires his work 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

Have you downloaded the @vrubinobs.bsky.social Orbitviewer App yet? It gives you access to detailed information about planets, dwarf planets, near-earth objects, main belt asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects, comets, interstellar objects, and much more. Start exploring now! orbitviewer.app/en/ 🔭

Aside from Ghostbusters, is the secondary mirror on @vrubinobs.bsky.social the coolest thing ever made in New York? Corning Inc, its co-makers, have been nominated for the Coolest Thing Made in New York Manufacturing Contest! 🔭 Find out more about the mirror: rubinobservatory.org/news/seconda...

We think there's no such thing as a typical scientist. Our new 'In the spotlight' series goes behind the scenes to get to know some of the individuals working on the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST. First up, Dr Elham Saremi of @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭

We're going to need some more hot beverages 🥶☕️ Cerro Pachón got its third winter storm of the season this past weekend, getting ~30cm of snow! 😱 Many thanks to our hard-working crews for getting the roads safe and clear! 🔭🧪 📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory

BBC News next to appreciate the curtains, talking @vrubinobs.bsky.social and Comet 3I/ATLAS

7 billion-year-old comet caught on camera! @vrubinobs.bsky.social is already helping reveal the secrets of the Universe. Hear from @megschwamb.bsky.social on how a serendipitous event should help us better understand Comet 3I/Atlas : www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭

If you couldn't study science at school, or the teaching was bad, don't worry, you could still become a leading scientist and even an Astronomer Royal. My colleague @pallabg.bsky.social story on Prof Michele Dougherty's new appointment and her brilliant career www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After a long and exhausting but stimulating week at the Rubin Community Workshop, I got to talk about some of the first science results coming from @vrubinobs.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today (24 minutes in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Blimey, that’s a line up! If you’re at #latitude today, come see my three brilliant guests, and a little bit of me. On tomorrow with the brilliant Steve Pretty too.

ICYMI, a bunch of awesome @vrubinobs.bsky.social colleagues pulled together a lightning fast, highly custom analysis of a new interstellar object with very early commissioning data Once we're fully up and running, science is going to be off the hook You're not ready 🔭

Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...

DAY 5 #NAM2025durham 🛰 Its the final day of NAM! Here are the special events for today: 🖼 final chance to see participant artwork around the building 🎨 art room demo at lunchtime 🏆closing ceremony Thank you all for joining us at #NAM2025! We hope you enjoyed!

Day 4 of #NAM2025durham is almost in the books... but wait, it's not over yet! The scientific sessions may have finished for the day but tonight there will be a live recording of our super popular The Supermassive Podcast, listened to by 90,000 space fans around the world. 🎙️🚀🪐 ⤵️

Lots of Rubin action at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week, including @grahamsmithastro.bsky.social who'll be giving an overview of the @vrubinobs.bsky.social /LSST Science Collaborations, and what data to expect when as commissioning is completed and the survey begins. 🔭

Speaking at @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 in Durham: Feng-Yuan Liu on "Dust-obscured star-formation history back to z ≃ 7 revealed by ALMA and JWST PRIMER". Feng-Yuan has published in #MNRAS as a co-author: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

My new book, Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact, is out now from Reaktion Books! It's all about the exoplanets that astronomers are discovering, seen through the lens of science fiction, featuring interviews with astronomers and sf authors reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/amazing...

What does a butler have to do with @vrubinobs.bsky.social ? This interview with @markgbeckett.bsky.social explains how the worlds of #astronomy and #cloudcomputing collide in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. 🔭 www.space.com/technology/c...

From later this year, @vrubinobs.bsky.social will produce 10M #kafka alerts per night, capturing the dynamics of the night sky. Here in @lsstuk.bsky.social, we're getting ready. The #lasair Alert Broker is being put through its paces with test streams. #capturethecosmos

Experience NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s Cosmic Treasure Chest with sound!🎶 Just as an image conveys data visually, sonification conveys data with sound. No two people will explore Rubin’s images the same, & no two listening experiences will be the same. 🔭🧪 skyviewer.app/skysynth

Those who ‘watch partied’ until the wee hours might not have been awake early enough to see team member @mandabanerji.bsky.social on the BBC Breakfast sofa this morning talking all things @vrubinobs.bsky.social! 🔭

Want to download everything from today? Whether you want a new desktop background or an image to send to friends and family, we've got you covered! Head to rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-gallery and take your pick 🌌🔭🧪 (...or just download everything, no need to choose!)

With 200 Petabytes of data, stretching back more than 1M light years, and capturing 37 Bn objects, it's going to be a busy time for @lsstuk.bsky.social and @epcc.bsky.social . My favourite image, so far, is this one of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, formed from 678 individual images! #supercomputing

Just gave a short talk on the Data release Processing for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in our Lancaster ‘First Look’ event. Lancaster&RAL will process 25% of the data over 10 years

Ain't no party like a #RubinWatchParty!

Birmingham’s Rubin First Look Watch Party begins in just one hour at 15:30 BST, with a taste of the science that our postdocs and students are excited about. #RubinFirstLook @lsstuk.bsky.social @vrubinobs.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/bi...

Here we go!!! 👀 🔭 #RubinFirstLook

Looking for some respite-escapism from <horrified looks at the news>? Join a #RubinFirstLook watch party on Mon 23rd June: the cosmos is calming.🔭🧪 #Edinburgh - come to Dynamic Earth (🎟️ almost sold-out): dynamicearth.org.uk/event/rubin-... 🍿: Watch live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...

At LSST:UK HQ we're excited for the release of the Rubin First Look images on Monday. If you want to understand more about all the ways the UK is contributing to the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST, read our latest news story. 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

Want to set eyes on the @vrubinobs.bsky.social First Look images in good company? There are public Watch Parties taking place around the UK and all over the world. Check out your nearest event rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f... 🔭

Have you organised your @vrubinobs.bsky.social Watch Party yet? Read how @newscientist.com is getting in the party mood for First Look. 🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/2484...

There's a special episode of The Sky at Night tomorrow night, celebrating thee 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. I was delighted to be asked to take part in the dinner party and discussion! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The tech of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory makes it unique. It will use the car-sized LSST Camera to #CaptureTheCosmos, and the telescope’s drive system, rigid design, & compact shape allow it to be ready for its next image in just 5 seconds! ⚡️ 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-... 🔭🧪

Did you know YOU will be able to work on NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data in your free time as a volunteer scientist?🔭🧪 We've partnered with the Zooniverse, a platform where researchers build projects for volunteer scientists. Find out more at rubinobservatory.org/explore/citizen-science 📷: B. Quint

At today’s Cheltenham Science Festival event on @vrubinobs.bsky.social, @apontzen.bsky.social‬ asked the questions while Hiranya Peiris and ‪@chrislintott.bsky.social‬ explained why Rubin is unique and shared their excitement about the opportunities that the forthcoming data will provide 🔭

Re-reading Vera Rubin's autobiographical note, and the opening is fantastic: 'My life has been an interesting voyage. I became an astronomer because I could not imagine living on Earth and not trying to understand how the Universe works.' cc @lsstuk.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Good news for UK fans of @vrubinobs.bsky.social ! A new episode of BBC Tech Now goes behind the scenes at Cerro Pachón + @chrislintott.bsky.social talks all things Rubin at Cheltenham Science Festival. 🙌 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

An international team led by @megschwamb.bsky.social has forecast some of astonishing numbers of objects that @vrubinobs.bsky.social will map. Meet 'Sorcha' - new open source software created by the team to predict which small bodies will be discovered by Rubin. Find out more at sorcha.space 🔭

What a joy to listen to @astroroyalscot.bsky.social talking to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social about @vrubinobs.bsky.social and all things #astronomy on The Life Scientific today. Her passion for helping people become interested in astronomy transmits through the airwaves! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Date for your diaries: 23 June! That's the first time we'll be able to look at the cosmos with @vrubinobs.bsky.social Find out more and book yourself a Watch Party! 🔭https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look

Good news if you're a fan of websites... we've relaunched ours! If you're curious about what we do and how the UK is contributing to @vrubinobs.bsky.social, take a look! www.lsst.ac.uk 🔭

Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: we’re one month into on-sky testing with the LSST Camera! The letter of the week was “c”: calibrations, computing, commissioning, and sCattered light investigations. (Yes, we stretched that last one—but the science is solid!) 🔭🧪 🧵

As @vrubinobs.bsky.social nears completion, we're bracing ourselves for the onslaught of data. The UK is hosting one of Rubin's data facilities, in @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and RAL. Find out more about Rubin's data challenges here: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-d...

As well as featuring the UK’s supercomputer power to crunch @vrubinobs.bsky.social data, the new episode of BBC Tech Now has Dr Cyrielle Opitom @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social explaining how Rubin will transform how we see the Universe 🔭 Watch it here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Hear from @markgbeckett.bsky.social about the UK supercomputers that will power @vrubinobs.bsky.social data. The new episode of BBC Tech Now goes behind the scenes at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 🔭

Out today! ‘Multi-messenger gravitational lensing (Part 2)’ from @royalsociety.org The issue is co-planned and edited by our Project Scientist @grahamsmithastro.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/202...