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National Science Foundation (NSF)

This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Photo credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

NSF, DOE’s Rubin Observatory will create a massive data trove. A cloud-based platform and nightly alerts will deliver it to researchers.

Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to researchers.
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National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

NSF director Panchanathan announces his departure

Sethuraman Panchanathan has been at the science research agency since the first Trump administration.
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