AURA is now accepting applications for the 2019 AURA Padre Picetti Award, open to all teachers in Chile! Every year the award recognizes leaders in education and outreach in Chile for their outstanding performance and contributions to the community in the subject of science, not only to young students, but also to the general public.
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Late Friday October 18, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera declared a state of emergency in the province of Santiago, Valparaiso, Concepción, Rancagua and La Serena/Coquimbo and a curfew was established.
La Gran Iniciativa de Astronomía de la NSF comienza el 1 de octubre de 2019 Telescopes from the five infrastructures Credit: National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld Read in English Release Images oir1901a – Telescopes from the five infrastructures Credit: National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld 1280 x 756 jpg 6600 × 3900 jpg 6600 […]
NSF and AURA are proud to announce the launch of integrated operations of all of NSF’s nighttime astronomical facilities under NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NSF’s OIR Lab).
El Vicepresidente del proyecto del Telescopio Gigante de Magallanes y Astrónomo de la Institución Carnegie para la Ciencia, Patrick McCarthy, fue seleccionado como el nuevo Director del Laboratorio Nacional de Investigación de Astronomía Óptica-Infrarroja de la Fundación Nacional para la Ciencia (NSF’s OIR Lab).
Vice President of the Giant Magellan Telescope project and Astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Patrick McCarthy, has been selected as the new Director of the National Science Foundation National Optical-infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NSF’s OIR Lab).
The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in multiple colors. The image of the newly discovered object, denoted C/2019 Q4(Borisov), was obtained on the night of 9-10 September using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii’s Maunakea.
Its size and surface gravity are much larger than Earth’s, and its radiation environment may be hostile, but a distant planet called K2-18b has captured the interest of scientists all over the world. For the first time, researchers have detected water vapor signatures in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system that resides in the “habitable zone,” the region around a star in which liquid water could potentially pool on the surface of a rocky planet.
Anyone who has ever peered at Saturn through a small telescope is immediately enticed by its elegant rings, which make the far-flung planet one of the most exotic-looking, opulent worlds in the solar system.
La Asociación de Universidades para la Investigación en Astronomía (AURA) se
complace en anunciar que el Dr. Mario Andrés Hamuy, ha sido nombrado
Vicepresidente y Jefe de Misión del Observatorio de AURA en Chile (AURA-O). El Dr.
Hamuy llega a AURA luego de desempeñar el cargo de Profesor Titular de
Astronomía desde el año 2011, en la Universidad de Chile.
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Mario Andrés Hamuy as Vice President and Head of Mission for AURA Observatory in Chile (AURA-O).
AURA is pleased to announce the appointment of Lars Lindberg Christensen as Head of NCOA Communications, Outreach, and Education (COE). In his previous position as Head of Education and Public Outreach for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Lars directed the development of an internationally recognized brand for astronomical communications and outreach.
A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and focus on a new breed of supernova that can utterly annihilate its parent star — leaving no remnant behind. The signature event, something astronomers had never witnessed before, may represent the way in which the most massive stars in the Universe, including the first stars, die.
Supernovae, neutron star mergers, black holes at the center of galaxies, erupting young stars — these are all examples of objects in the night sky that change their brightness over time. In the coming years, astronomers expect to discover millions of these variable astronomical events with new sensitive telescopes like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
Maunakea Observatories issued an open letter intended to share their perspectives about the situation on Maunakea with the broader astronomy community. Read on Maunakea Observatories website
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