Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Palomar Transient Factory, Zwicky Transient Facility, small telescopes, Vera Rubin Observatory, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Shrinivas Kulkarni, SpaceX Starlink, astronomical twilight, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, dark energy, Hubble constant, redshift, Doppler effect, charge-coupled devices, Type Ia supernovae, supernova, neutron stars, pulsars, millisecond pulsars, Alex Filippenko, Ooty radio telescope, Govind Swarup, IIT Delhi, Caltech Optical Observatory, Donald Backer,

Interview: Shrinivas Kulkarni, Finder of a Thousand Exploding Stars

Jatan Mehta 25/01/2020

An interview with the creator of the Palomar Transient...

2I/Borisov, interstellar comet, 'Oumuamua, Kruger 60, Gennady Borisov, comet tail, Oort Cloud, Neptune, Solar System, hyperbolic orbit, cyanogen, organic molecules, water on Earth, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope,

Meet 2I/Borisov, the First Comet From Another Star Visiting Our Solar System

Prakash Chandra 14/10/2019

Comets and asteroids are remnants from the early Solar...

Starlink, SpaceX, astronomy, night sky, cultural heritage, field of view, astronomy, space telescopes, ground-based telescopes, Thirty Metre Telescope, European Extremely Large Telescope, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, radio telescopes, radio frequency, International Astronomical Union, low-Earth orbit, internet from space, European Southern Observatory, India-based Neutrino Observatory,

Why Astronomers Are Up in Arms Against SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

Abhijeet Borkar 14/06/2019

A thousand-dozen satellites would outnumber stars visible to the...

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Digging Through Long-Archived Data for the Next Big Discovery in Astronomy

Eileen Meyer 15/05/2018

Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data...