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1 giorno fa · The LSST Camera, the largest digital camera in the world, was built at DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. After two decades of work, its completion was announced in April. This sensitive camera will soon be installed at Rubin Observatory, producing detailed images with a field of view seven times wider than ...
1 giorno fa · Thursday, May 23, 2024 0:26. It’s been 20 years in the making, but a 3200-megapixel camera built especially for astrophysics discoveries has finally arrived at its home. The Legacy of Space and Time (LSST) camera was delivered to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile in mid-May, 2024. The camera traveled from its construction lab at the SLAC ...
1 giorno fa · Researchers have stumbled upon a cosmic puzzle - giant black holes were spotted firing powerful beams of particles into space and then changing their aim to fire at new targets - akin to the fictional Death Star space station in Star Wars. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the U.S. National ...
23 ore fa · 10 stunning images of galaxies captured by NASA telescopes. Chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina ...
1 giorno fa · An International Dark Sky City, Flagstaff sits next to Mount Elden, Humphreys Peak and south of the San Francisco Peaks on the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau. Around 7,000 feet in elevation, it is along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the United States.
1 giorno fa · The British Groundwater Model (BGWM) is the first integrated groundwater model covering Britain to simulate transient groundwater dynamics and surface water/groundwater interactions at the national scale. Groundwater accounts for the largest volume of liquid fresh water on Earth and represents an essential resource for public and private supply ...
1 giorno fa · Roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, there is a cosmic structure known as IRAS 23077+6707 (IRAS 23077) that resembles a giant butterfly. Ciprian T. Berghea, an astronomer with the U.S. Naval Obser…
