NOIRLab: Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies
Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the distant Universe. Follow-up observations with Gemini North spectroscopically resolved one ...
STScI: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope General Observer Scientific Programs Selected
Mission officials for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have announced the selection of the General Observer programs for the telescope’s ...
NOIRLab: MAROON-X Embarks on its Exoplanet Quest
Astronomers using the recently installed instrument MAROON-X on Gemini North have determined the mass of a transiting exoplanet orbiting the ...
STScI: Comet Makes a Pit Stop Near Jupiter’s Asteroids
After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout
With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed ...
NOIRLab: The Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel
The Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was originally designed for the Dark Energy Survey, has captured one of the deepest ...
STScI: Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space ...
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 ...
