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NSF’s newest solar telescope produces first images Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope. NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope, on the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i, will enable a new era of solar science and a leap forward in understanding the sun and its impacts on our planet. Activity on the sun, known as space ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299908&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Published January 29, 2020 at 10:10AM Read more at nsf.gov

Solar Science: Exploring the power of our closest star NSF has been supporting solar astronomy and heliophysics since the 1950's, with its newest flagship observatory finishing construction in 2020, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/solarscience/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Published January 29, 2020 at 10:23AM Read more at nsf.gov

NSF-supported observatory renamed for astronomer Vera C. Rubin The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will now be called the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory, making it the first national U.S. observatory to be named after a female astronomer.  Announced at the 2020 American Astronomical Society winter meeting, the name recognizes the role Rubin played in better understanding dark matter, which will be one of the observatory survey’s four main themes.  “Named after an astronomer who provided important evidence of the existence of ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299739&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Published January 06, 2020 at 09:01PM Read more at nsf.gov