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NSF’s NOIRLab Launches “Teen Astronomy Café — To Go!”

NSF’s NOIRLab Launches “Teen Astronomy Café — To Go!”

July 14, 2022

NSF's NOIRLab’s Teen Astronomy Café educational program is proud to present its newest initiative: Teen Astronomy Café — To Go!...

Gemini North Spies Ultra-Faint Fossil Galaxy Discovered on Outskirts of Andromeda

Gemini North Spies Ultra-Faint Fossil Galaxy Discovered on Outskirts of Andromeda

June 30, 2022

An unusual ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered on the outer fringes of the Andromeda Galaxy thanks to the sharp...

Dusty Disks Imaged from NSF’s NOIRLab

Dusty Disks Imaged from NSF’s NOIRLab

June 15, 2022

This mosaic of dusty, swirling disks shows a sample of images captured from the International Gemini Observatory, a Program of...

Gemini North Telescope Helps Explain Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors

Gemini North Telescope Helps Explain Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors

May 31, 2022

Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North...

Strong-Arming a Galaxy

Strong-Arming a Galaxy

March 22, 2022

The overdeveloped spiral arm of the galaxy NGC 772, which was created by tidal interactions with an unruly neighbor, dominates...

Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls into View from NSF’s NOIRLab in Chile

Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls into View from NSF’s NOIRLab in Chile

February 22, 2022

This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a...

Journey Through the Universe 2022

Journey Through the Universe 2022

February 15, 2022

NOIRLab's Journey Through the Universe — returning with an online program this year — will share the wonders of the...

NSF’s NOIRLab and the SKA Observatory to Co-host New IAU Center for Satellite Constellation Interference

NSF’s NOIRLab and the SKA Observatory to Co-host New IAU Center for Satellite Constellation Interference

February 3, 2022

At a press conference today, NSF's NOIRLab announced that it has been selected, along with the SKA Observatory (SKAO), by...

Sidewinding Young Stellar Jets Spied by Gemini South

Sidewinding Young Stellar Jets Spied by Gemini South

January 20, 2022

Sinuous stellar jets meander lazily across a field of stars in new images captured from Chile by the international Gemini...

Ruins of Ancient Star Cluster Found at Milky Way’s Edge

Ruins of Ancient Star Cluster Found at Milky Way’s Edge

January 5, 2022

A primordial stellar stream discovered in the outer reaches of the Milky Way has a lower proportion of heavy elements...

Precise Insights into the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Heart

Precise Insights into the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Heart

December 14, 2021

Astronomers have made the most precise measurements yet of the motions of stars around the supermassive black hole at the...

Gemini Catches a One-Winged Butterfly

Gemini Catches a One-Winged Butterfly

December 7, 2021

This ethereal image, captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, looks as delicate as...

NOIRLab Response to Astro2020 Decadal Survey

NOIRLab Response to Astro2020 Decadal Survey

November 5, 2021

NSF’s NOIRLab fully supports the scientific vision of Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s and stands...

Astronomers Uncover Briefest Supernova-Powered Gamma-Ray Burst

Astronomers Uncover Briefest Supernova-Powered Gamma-Ray Burst

July 26, 2021

Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the implosion of a massive star. Using the international Gemini...

Are We Missing Other Earths?

Are We Missing Other Earths?

June 28, 2021

Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars. New findings from a team...

By Jove! Jupiter Shows Its Stripes and Colors

By Jove! Jupiter Shows Its Stripes and Colors

May 11, 2021

Stunning new images of Jupiter from Gemini North and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcase the planet at infrared, visible,...

Caught Speeding: Clocking the Fastest-Spinning Brown Dwarfs

Caught Speeding: Clocking the Fastest-Spinning Brown Dwarfs

April 7, 2021

Astronomers at Western University have discovered the most rapidly rotating brown dwarfs known. They found three brown dwarfs that each...

Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies

Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies

April 6, 2021

Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the distant Universe. Follow-up observations with Gemini North spectroscopically resolved one...

Explore the Universe during AstroDay–Chile

Explore the Universe during AstroDay–Chile

March 15, 2021

AstroDay–Chile’s annual astronomy education festival will take place entirely online in Spanish for the first time in 2021, because of...

MAROON-X Embarks on its Exoplanet Quest

MAROON-X Embarks on its Exoplanet Quest

March 4, 2021

Astronomers using the recently installed instrument MAROON-X on Gemini North have determined the mass of a transiting exoplanet orbiting the...

Journey Through the Universe 2021

Journey Through the Universe 2021

February 22, 2021

Journey Through the Universe — which, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, will take place entirely online for the first time...

Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout

Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout

February 10, 2021

With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed...

The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Quasar in the Universe

The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Quasar in the Universe

January 12, 2021

The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is...

Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past

November 24, 2020

An international team of astronomers using Gemini North’s GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright...

Maunakea Telescopes Confirm First Brown Dwarf Discovered by Radio Observations

Maunakea Telescopes Confirm First Brown Dwarf Discovered by Radio Observations

November 9, 2020

A collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed...

Restart of Limited NOIRLab Operations at Kitt Peak, Cerro Pachón and Cerro Tololo

Restart of Limited NOIRLab Operations at Kitt Peak, Cerro Pachón and Cerro Tololo

October 12, 2020

NOIRLab is pleased to announce that limited science operations are being re-established at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona and...

Looking Sharp: Most Detailed Image Yet of Famous Stellar Nursery

Looking Sharp: Most Detailed Image Yet of Famous Stellar Nursery

October 5, 2020

Astronomers using the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have captured the western wall of the Carina Nebula...

Big Astronomy Planetarium Program and Online Activities Go Live!

Big Astronomy Planetarium Program and Online Activities Go Live!

September 22, 2020

Big Astronomy or Astronomia a Gran Escala is a bilingual planetarium show that extends beyond the dome using web-based and...

A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion

A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion

September 15, 2020

For the first time, an intact, giant exoplanet has been discovered orbiting close to a white dwarf star. This discovery...

Report Offers Roadmap to Mitigate Effects of Large Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

Report Offers Roadmap to Mitigate Effects of Large Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

August 25, 2020

A report by experts representing the global astronomical community, concludes that large constellations of bright satellites in low Earth orbit...

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