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First data from Vera Rubin Observatory

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 by Richard Harris

Dr. Brian Keating’s exclusive interview with Professor Mario Jurić offers an unprecedented glimpse into what is already shaping up to be one of the most transformative astronomical projects of our time, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Situated high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory is not just an engineering marvel but a gateway into a new era of space explorat...

NSF-DOE Rubin first look

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 by Richard Harris

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will release its first imagery today at a livestreamed event in Washington, D.C. The imagery will show cosmic phenomena captured at an unprecedented scale. In just over 10 hours of test o...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

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NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy

Image Credit: AAO ITSO Office, Gemini Obs./AURA & T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage)

The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy causing the large spiral galaxy to light up with a tremendous burst of star formation. The changing gravity during the collision created density waves that compressed existing clouds of gas and triggered the star-forming party. The featured image from the Gemini North Telescope shows the galaxy in great detail, color-coded so that pink highlights gas while white and blue highlight stars. Some of the star clusters in the galaxy are quite young, indicating that starburst galaxies may remain in star-burst mode for quite some time. NGC 3310 spans about 50,000 light years, lies about 50 million light years away, and is visible with a small telescope towards the constellation of Great Bear Ursa Major.