This week: the Vera Rubin Observatory‘s Community Workshop, 2025. In which the program scientists (including foreign contributors/collaborators) share their current status and coming plans. This year, unlike last, the body of experts has real meat on the table. Their agenda:… Read More »Rubin Community Workshop 2025- Pt. 1
Still time to sign up for the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, this 23 – 27 June 2025 at University College Cork Cork, Ireland. Early bird registration ends Monday, 28 April 2025. eas.unige.ch/EAS meeting/program.jsp: Symposium S6 23-24 June 2025 The future… Read More »2025 EAS Meeting, Cork
Euclid is a major, international, cross-disciplinary mission. On its face, it is an ESA space telescope to untangle the mysteries of dark matter and the history of the cosmos, by: 1) measuring the distortions of distant galaxies, galaxies which shine… Read More »No (?) Paper: Euclid Q1 Dump
The February Astronomy & Astrophysics (vol. 694) still says “in progress”, despite it being March 1: de la Fuente Marcos, R. de León, J. Serra-Ricart, M. et al. Basaltic quasi-mini-moon: Characterizing 2024 PT5 with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias… Read More »Note, Paper: Astrono-bodies & Astrophysics
– The Hera mission (ESA’s follow-up orbiter, after DART) is on track; if there’s an issue, it’s that the switch to Falcon launch requires reconfiguration and retest of the downlink. First Hera comm is just after launch, and now US-practice,… Read More »SBAG, Winter 2024-Day 2