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An artist's illustration of 2025 MN45

Record-breaking asteroid discovered by Rubin

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The first peer-reviewed paper to use LSST Camera data has highlighted the fastest-ever spinning asteroid, named 2025 MN45.

 Background image: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA

Wanted: Rubin Difference Detectives

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Have you got the skills to help improve the identification of astrophysical transients, variables, and moving objects?

 The Janet Network will enable researchers to work with the enormous amounts of data that the Rubin LSST will capture.

The UK network enabling cosmic discovery

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A new video from Jisc reveals what it takes to enable UK researchers to do science with the huge amounts of Rubin LSST data.

 Dimple, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham working in LSST:UK.

In the Spotlight: Dimple

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Dimple, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, tells us why she has focused on transients in her career.

 Aaron Ballantyne, a multimedia designer working at EPCC, created the artwork.

Art meets science at the UK Data Access Centre

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The Somerville research cloud has received a new artwork to honour its role in the groundbreaking LSST.

 Professor Jeff Tseng is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford

In the spotlight: Jeff Tseng

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Professor Jeff Tseng, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, explains why the LSST holds great promise for a particle physicist.

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