Jean Toal Eisen new AURA VP for Corporate Strategy
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is pleased to announce Jean Toal Eisen will join the AURA Corporate ...
AURA and NSF’s NOIRLab Acknowledge Hawai‘i House Bill 2024
The International Gemini Observatory, a program of the National Science Foundation's (NSF’s) NOIRLab, which operates the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, and its management ...
Continuing Updates on the Contreras Fire at Kitt Peak National Observatory
The Contreras Fire reached the Kitt Peak National Observatory during the early morning of Friday 17 June 2022. We are ...
Kitt Peak National Observatory Shuts Down Due to Contreras Fire
A brush fire that has been designated the Contreras Fire is burning near Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in southern ...
2022 AURA Annual Meeting
Each year the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) holds an Annual Meeting for the Representatives from its ...
AURA Board Endorses Principles for the Future Management of Astronomical Facilities on Maunakea
At its April 28,2022 meeting the AURA Board of Directors endorsed the following principles for the future management of astronomical ...
Many Segments are now One Mirror
Today NASA released the first image from Webb with all 18 segments focused and functioning together as a single 6.5-meter ...
Remembering Doug Tody, the ‘Father of IRAF’
Former NOAO employee Doug Tody, who was the visionary behind the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF), has passed away from complications ...
Why will it take six months to see JWST’s first science images?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is ready for launch from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. More ...
Dr. Željko Ivezić next Director of Rubin Observatory Construction Project
AURA is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Željko Ivezić as the next Director of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Construction ...
NSO: DKIST Begins its Operations Commissioning Phase
commissioning phase (OCP). Starting on December 6, 2021, and weather permitting, DKIST will perform first science observations, implementing observing experiments ...
AURA Supports “Pathways to Discovery” Recommendations
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) fully supports the scientific vision of Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy ...
