The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveils a 2.8-ton, $800 million digital camera, set to revolutionize astronomy with 3,200-megapixel capability and a decade-long mission.
The generous gift establishes a distinguished professorship, a teaching excellence award, and a science and mathematics scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences to honor Tom and Julie Lutz.
After 17 years at Texas A&M, Nick Suntzeff, Ph.D., director of A&M’s astronomy program, is set to retire at the end of this semester. Students who have met him likely