Asteroid 2024 YR4 is going to miss Earth, but the story doesn’t end there
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...
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‘It's going to be awesome': How the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will survey space and time
Originally named the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed to honor the great Vera Rubin, who died in 2016 and was a pioneering researcher on the universe’s composition.
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Models and Simulations for the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
We describe the simulated data sample for the Photometric Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC), a publicly available challenge to ...
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Deep Astrometric Standards and Galactic Structure
https://doi.org/10.1086/498072 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/498072 ABSTRACT The advent of next‐generation imaging telescopes, such as the Large Synoptic ...