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It's like the holidays in July...our first week-long workshop after the first @NSF–@doescience Rubin Observatory image reveal! 🎁 We're one week out from the Rubin Community Workshop in Tucson, and we can't wait for five days of rich discussions & observatory updates! #Rubin2025

KIPAC scientists are excited to get our hands on data from @VRubinObs, and we had an event last week to help us analyze it! Our Rubin Data Exploration Day event had speakers and workshops for scientists of all career stages. Check out some photos from the event:

If you're interested in learning more about cosmic neutrino detectors, galactic magnetic fields, or the evolution of the cosmos, come check out our latest research highlight about the role particles play in the universe! kipac.stanford.edu/highlights/bey…

Peter Michelson was just recognized by the European Space Agency for his work on @NASAFermi, an instrument that has completely transformed high-energy astrophysics! news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0…

Our favorite kinds of fireworks are the cosmic kind 🌟🎆 Our #RubinFirstLook image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae has plenty of cosmic fireworks to explore! Let the bright, young stars in these clusters add some sparkle to your #FourthOfJuly holiday ✨ 📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Obs.

We had a great time talking to members of the public @calacademy this past weekend about how @VRubinObs is going to transform cosmology over the next decade! Sign up for our mailing list to hear about future events: bit.ly/KIPAC_outreach

Over 600 people showed up at Hewlett to hear from KIPAC scientists about @VRubinObs at our special public lecture event on Tuesday! The full event is now on YouTube in case you missed it: youtube.com/live/9R9lIkQ74…

It's not too late to RSVP - join us tomorrow at 7pm in Hewlett or online to learn more about the groundbreaking images from @VRubinObs!

Did you hear⁉️ More than 2,000 new asteroids have already been discovered by @VRubinObs - and we expect to find millions more! What could be better for #InternationalAsteroidDay? ☄️

KIPAC is teaming up with @calacademy this Saturday to celebrate the First Look from @VRubinObs! 🤩 Join our scientists for short talks on how Rubin is uniquely poised to transform multiple sub-fields of astronomy. 🔭✨ More info: calacademy.org/events/program…

@VRubinObs's very first images using the world’s largest digital camera was featured on @CBSNews (@KPIXtv). @RisaWechsler, Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (@KIPAC1) at @Stanford, said, "It makes me very, very excited about the future of…

Stunned by the first images released from the @VRubinObs? Join us on July 1 for a special event where key project leads and scientists share why this observatory is so special and how it will help us study the changing sky, and our own Milky Way. RSVP: bit.ly/rubin-july1

A Rubin edition! 🌟 In honor of the first images from @VRubinObs we have a special edition of our monthly newsletter. Relive some of the project’s biggest milestones: bit.ly/3Ib2eLz

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ~10 million galaxies in the image, there's plenty to find. Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! ➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

Travis Lange and Phil Marshall sat down yesterday with KQED to talk about their work @SLAClab to develop the camera for the @VRubinObs and its implications for cosmology research over the next decade: kqed.org/science/1997442

What an incredible day! After so many years of anticipation, the @VRubinObs images themselves are even better than any of us dreamed. So many treasures in this image, just 0.05% of the sky that Rubin will observe over the next 10 years. It's going to be an incredible decade!

Stanford researchers gathered on Monday morning to celebrate the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which bring the night sky to life like never before. The digital camera at the heart of the telescope, designed and built at the Stanford-run…

Check out this article from @NatGeo to hear from Christian Aganze and other scientists who worked hard to make the @VRubinObs and its massive camera a reality: nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

Breaking news! The Vera C. Rubin Observatory (@VRubinObs)has released its first images using the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera and they are spectacular! Members of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (@KIPAC1) at @Stanford were deeply…

Interested in learning more about @VRubinObs after yesterday's first look? Our very own Sydney Erickson has you covered! She will be giving multiple public lectures about @VRubinObs this Saturday, June 28th: calacademy.org/events/program…