{"id":246618,"date":"2026-11-05T03:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-reveals-its-first-dwarf-planet-candidate-in-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:06:23","slug":"nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-reveals-its-first-dwarf-planet-candidate-in-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-reveals-its-first-dwarf-planet-candidate-in-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"NSF\u2013DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Its First Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"NSF\u2013DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Its First Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GScw6xLHPp4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. National Science Foundation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSF<\/a>) and the U.S. Department of Energy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOE<\/a>) Office of Science will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aura-astronomy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AURA<\/a>) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (<a href=\"https:\/\/www6.slac.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SLAC<\/a>), under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSF NOIRLab<\/a> and SLAC.<\/p>\n<p>NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}