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  1. Daniel Pomarède @[email protected] ·

    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
    noirlab.edu/public/images/Vera

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

    #verarubin #astronomer #astronomy #rubin #deidrehunter #katygarmany
  2. Daniel Pomarède @[email protected] ·

    Can you spot the newly named Rubin Crater?

    hint: latitude -83°, longitude 78°

    source: planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Fea

    #VeraRubin #RubinCrater #crater #Moon #TheMoon #geology #astrogeology #USGS #news #astronomy #astrodon #space #science #STEM #astronomer #cartography #map #maps

    #verarubin #rubincrater #crater #moon #themoon #geology
  3. Daniel Pomarède @[email protected] ·

    Rubin Crater

    a crater of the Moon has been officially named in honor of astronomer Vera Rubin

    It is located in the lunar south polar region of high research and exploration interest.

    planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Fea
    Credit infographics: USGS Astrogeology

    #VeraRubin #RubinCrater #crater #Moon #TheMoon #geology #astrogeology #USGS #news #astronomy #astrodon #space #science #STEM #astronomer

    #verarubin #rubincrater #crater #moon #themoon #geology
  4. Khurram Wadee ✅ @[email protected] ·

    #JohannesKepler was a brilliant #astronomer who studied the motion of #planets. Like everyone, he also had some strange ideas about the heavens, no doubt as a person in the middle ages would about the harmony of worlds and their purported relation to things like the #PlatonicSolids, which was of course bogus. He is probably best known for his famous three laws of #PlanetaryMotion which he reluctantly formulated when he had to abandon the idea that planets only orbit the #Sun in perfect #circles.

    #circles #sun #planetarymotion #platonicsolids #planets #astronomer
  5. IT News @[email protected] ·

    Amazon joins SpaceX, OneWeb, and Facebook in the race to create space-based internet services - Amazon is officially joining the race to create a network of satellites in low earth orbit that will... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #internetconnectivity #highspeedinternet #u.s.government #unitedstates #spaceflight #astronomer #blueorigin #satellites #spacecraft #broadband #coca-cola #satellite #facebook #starlink #google #oneweb #spacex #tc

    #tc #spacex #oneweb #google #starlink #facebook