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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Action! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

The wait is over: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, is now capturing the cosmos in unprecedented detail, transforming the way we study the dynamic Universe.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe, Will Continue To Explore

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, creating the largest high-resolution 3D map of our universe to date.
Thursday, April 02, 2026

CMU Launches Keystone Astronomy & AI Visiting Fellows Program

The McWilliams Center for Cosmology & Astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University has received funding from the Simons Foundation’s Targeted Grants to Institutions to launch the Keystone Astronomy & AI (KAAI) Visiting Fellows Program.
Anna O’Grady Named NASA Hubble Fellow
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Anna O’Grady Named NASA Hubble Fellow

Anna O’Grady didn’t just read The Illustrated Atlas of the Universe in eighth grade — she inhaled it. The images from the Hubble Space Telescope inside inspired her so strongly she says her “brain chemistry changed.”
Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Awards Palmese, Collaborators
Monday, January 26, 2026

Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Awards Palmese, Collaborators

Carnegie Mellon University’s Antonella Palmese is part of a team awarded funding through Scialog: Early Science with the LSST, a three-year initiative to ignite discovery with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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