With the support of Kitt Peak National Observatory, NOIRLab (formerly NOAO) has been working with the Tohono O’odham Nation on formal and informal programs since 2006.
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Promoting observatory STEM career opportunities, diversity, and inclusion at NOIRLab facilities is a core element of NOIRLab’s educational programming.
Artists and scientists often share a common goal, making the invisible visible. Yet artistically talented students, especially girls, often shy away from scientific careers.
The Teen Astronomy Café program is a free out-of-school program that offers high school students opportunities to interact with scientists who work at the forefront of astronomy.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies.While Webb and other space telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer, previously have revealed isolated ingredients of this broiling planet’s atmosphere, the new readings from Webb provide a full menu of atoms, molecules, and even signs of active chemistry and clouds.
Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The star exploded more than 11 billion years ago, when the universe was less than a fifth of its current age of 13.8 billion years.
The quiet Sun is a frontier of the solar surface devoid of active regions, plage, and sunspots, but what it hardly lacks is its own suite of magnetic mysteries. One phenomenon is magnetic cancellation, the interaction between magnetic structures of opposite polarities that partially or completely cancel each other out.
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the Universe. Supermassive versions of these unimaginably dense objects likely reside at the centers of all large galaxies. Stellar-mass black holes — which weigh approximately five to 100 times the mass of the Sun — are much more common, with an estimated 100 million in the Milky Way alone.
What happens when the densest, most massive stars – that are also super small – collide? They send out brilliant explosions known as kilonovae. Think of these events as the universe’s natural fireworks. Theorists suspect they periodically occur all across the cosmos – both near and far.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and dust that appear – at times – semi-transparent in near-infrared light.
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