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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory under construction in Chile. Its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey , the Legacy Survey of Space and Time .
All three people in the car were killed in the resulting crash. Jerome Brown: 1965 1992 27 years American American football player car Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: Brooksville, Florida: Lost control of his car at high speed and hit a power pole. His nephew, a passenger in the car, was also killed. Jerry Brown: 1987 2012 25 years American football ...
Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...
A car collided with a container truck in Quảng Nam, killing 10 and injuring 11. February 15 – Panama – Gualaca bus crash. A bus fell off a cliff in Gualaca District, Chiriquí Province, killing 42 and injuring 24. February 16 - Egypt - At least six people were killed when a pickup truck and a minibus collided near Ismailia. [513]
Erin Howard poses on the summit of Chile's Cerro Pachón with the Vera C. Rubin observatory. Howard, a Bremerton native and Olympic College graduate, is part of the team erecting what will be the ...
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (/ ˈ r uː b ɪ n /; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. [1] [2] She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves.
She used galaxies' rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, former name of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory astronomical observatory in Chile Legacy Survey of Space and Time, an astronomical survey performed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory; Lowstand systems tract, a type of sedimentary deposit in sequence stratigraphy