Zwicky
Americannoun
noun
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In search of answers, a team of astronomers used the Zwicky Transient Facility, an automated telescope that looks for objects that change in the night sky, to hunt for varying AGNs.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 17, 2024
Ho wrote the software that flagged the event in September 2022, while sifting through a half-million changes, or transients, detected daily in an all-sky survey conducted by the Califrnia-based Zwicky Transient Facility.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023
It was picked up by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2023
Janus was spotted using the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, with subsequent observations made by other ground-based telescopes.
From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2023
Supernovae provided the explanation, and it was an English cosmologist almost as singular in manner as Fritz Zwicky who figured it out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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