Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries is an award-winning bilingual planetarium show that takes viewers beyond the dome to behind the scenes of some of Chile’s world-class observatories. Meet the...
Astronomers have long sought to map the night skies, not only to fill in our picture of the cosmos we inhabit, but also to support further research. Comprehensive compilations of astronomical objects ...
Research team including #noirlab astronomer identify highly unusual star that may evolve into a magnetar — the most magnetic object in the known Universe17 August 2023A team of researchers, including ...
Haley’s Coronet and dwarf galaxy companion feel each other’s gravitational forces as they begin to coalesceThe spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley’s Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war...
Chemistry of so-called ‘hot Jupiter’ provides new insights into the formation of our Solar SystemAstronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated...
First small fraction of gigantic cosmic survey released and now available via DOE’s Berkeley Laboratory with a portion hosted by NOIRLab’s Astro Data LabNearly two million objects, including distant g...
Free-to-download planetarium series fosters cross-cultural understanding of humanity’s connection to the skyThe One Sky Project, led by the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center and sponsored by the Thirty Meter T...
Gemini North, part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s #noirlab, is back observing the night sky following the repair and refurbishment of its primary mirror. The telescope’s deb...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope ready to receive optical componentsVera C. Rubin Observatory has passed a major construction milestone: the telescope structure is ready to be outf...
Gemini South captures first direct evidence of an exoplanet being swallowed by an ancient Sun-like star.Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s #NOIRLab, have observed...
Machine learning reconstructs new image of Messier 87 from Event Horizon Telescope dataA team of researchers, including an astronomer with NSF’s #noirlab, has developed a new machine-learning techniqu...
Gemini North captures sprawling aftermath of head-on collision between a pair of galaxies.The #gemininorthtelescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s #noirlab, captu...
The largest two-dimensional map of the sky ever made has grown even larger with the tenth data release from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys — a monumental six-year survey covering nearly half the sky....
International Gemini Observatory probes aftermath of gamma-ray burst and uncovers surprising evidence of colliding neutron stars.While studying the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB), two indep...
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s #noirlab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-...
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