NOIRLab: Doubling the Number of Known Gravitational Lenses
Data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys have revealed over 1200 new gravitational lenses, approximately doubling ...
NOIRLab: The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Quasar in the Universe
The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is ...
STScI: Dark Storm on Neptune Reverses Direction, Possibly Shedding a Fragment
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death ...
STScI: Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit
Astronomers analyzing Hubble images of the double star, HD 106906, have discovered a planet in a huge 15,000-year-long orbit that ...
NSO: Inouye Solar Telescope Releases First Image of a Sunspot
The world’s largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, just released its first image ...
NOIRLab: Dark Energy Camera Snaps Deepest Photo yet of Galactic Siblings
Images from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) reveal a striking family portrait of our galactic neighbors — ...
NOIRLab: CK Vulpeculae seen with Gemini North
An international team of astronomers using Gemini North’s GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright ...
NSO: NSF’s National Solar Observatory Predicts a Large Sunspot for Thanksgiving
On November 18 scientists from the US National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory predicted the emergence of a new sunspot ...
STScI: NASA’s Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than ...
NOIRLab: Maunakea Telescopes Confirm First Brown Dwarf Discovered by Radio Observations
A collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed ...
STScI: Hubble Launches Large Ultraviolet-Light Survey of Nearby Stars
To better understand stellar evolution, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, has launched an ambitious new initiative ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers are Bulging with Data
Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way ...
