NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of ...

The day is finally here. The Vera Rubin Observatory, home to the largest digital camera in the world, is ready to start the ...

Pune: One of the world’s most ambitious astronomical surveys has officially begun, with Indian scientists playing a key role ...

Equipped with the world’s largest digital camera built for astronomy, the observatory will repeatedly scan the southern sky and create an unprecedented time-lapse record of cosmic changes ...

Photometric calibration in astronomical surveys encompasses the procedures required to translate raw detector counts into precise measurements of celestial fluxes and magnitudes. Central challenges ...

When Donald York was a student beginning his career in astronomy in the 1960s, it was very difficult to get enough time on a telescope to make observations. “We were suffering from a deficit of data,” ...

The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to bring about change over the past decade, research has shown. The survey, ...

A massive survey on the Milky Way's cosmic plane has been released by astronomers. The new collection, which may be the largest of its kind to date, contains an astounding 3.32 billion celestial ...

Astro2020: Panel on Optical and Infrared Observations from the Ground Teleconference Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (ASTRO2020) This call will be closed in its entirety. The panel w ...