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Chilean mountaintop observatory built to conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, using the world's largest digital camera to repeatedly image the sky.
University of Washington researchers' new software flagged a 2.53 km asteroid, 491384, that appears to rotate every 4.18 minutes in Rubin data. A spin that fast would demand internal strength well beyond a rubble pile's, but the paper is a preprint.
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Julian Shapiro, a UC Berkeley undergraduate, reports in The Astrophysical Journal three isolated dwarf galaxies that have stopped forming stars. He argues a large neighbor stripped them and threw them outward, but whether they are truly isolated still rests on distance estimates awaiting follow-up.
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A University of Washington team ran roughly 15,000 streams through four clump-free Milky Way analogues for five billion years and got the gaps and kinks usually read as subhalo signals. The host galaxy is now a control.
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The ODIN survey turned up 150 protoclusters from the universe's first three billion years. 3D follow-up on two of them shows structures on track to outgrow the Coma Cluster without straining the current cosmic-web picture.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope should return its first images in early 2027, and its Wide Field Instrument will deliver them over at least 100 times the sky Hubble frames in a single pointing.
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Aquarius IV is one of the faintest Milky Way satellites ever recorded, pulled out of Vera C. Rubin Observatory test data taken before the main survey began. The research note has not been peer reviewed.
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The LSST Camera's first image released for science stacks hundreds of exposures of the COSMOS field, where Hubble worked two decades ago, and Rubin's deputy director calls the field a testing ground for the ten-year survey.
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Brookhaven says its Quantum Lighthouse is the first permanent free-space optical link on the network. The 13-mile air hop is running; the 30-mile crossing to Yale is still pending.
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