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Vera Rubin at Mayall Telescope

Deidre Hunter (left), Katy Garmany (center), and Vera Rubin (right) at the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope around 2000.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/VeraRubin_DeidreHunter_KatyGarmany-CC/

#VeraRubin #Astronomer #Astronomy #Rubin #DeidreHunter #KatyGarmany #science #STEM #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #Astrodon #KittPeak #Arizona #Xterminal #Xterminals #xterm

Happy Birthday to Vera Rubin, born OTD in Philadelphia in 1928

Here's to her first paper, presented, when she was a Master student, at the Winter Meeting of the AAS (Haverford 1950), in which she pioneered the study of galaxies' peculiar velocities!
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1951AJ.....56S..47R/abstract

#VeraRubin #Cosmology #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #CosmicFlows #Astronomer #OTD #galaxies #science #STEM #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #Philadelphie #Haverford

#PlanetaryAstronomy picks of the day:

➡️ @mustapipa - Helsinki Univ. #astronomer, discovered dozens of #exoplanets

➡️ @AlexSanterne - Expert on exoplanets at Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille

➡️ @mpsgoettingen - Max Planck Inst. for #SolarSystem Research

➡️ @eamonn_kerins - #Astrophysicist at Jodrell Bank Centre for #Astrophysics, #exoplanet hunter

➡️ @asrivkin - #PlanetaryAstronomer, helping protect Earth from #asteroids

➡️ @timlichtenberg - #PlanetaryScientist at Univ. of Groningen

Andy Rivkin is a planetary astronomer who is helping to protect the Earth from asteroids 🌍 ☄️

You can follow at:

➡️ @asrivkin

Rivkin works on NASA's DART project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test) which is testing ways to steer dangerous asteroids away from us.

Rivkin is based at John Hopkins University in Maryland, USA.

#AndyRivkin #Astronomy #Astronomer #Astronomers #PlanetaryAstronomy #Asteroids #Asteroid #Space #Science #Scientist #Scientists #Academic #DART #NASA #DontLookUp