NOIRLab: Looking Sharp: Most Detailed Image Yet of Famous Stellar Nursery
The Carina Nebula observed in unprecedented detail with adaptive optics ...
STScI: Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade into Oblivion
Disappearing Supernova in Distant Galaxy Captured in Hubble Movie ...
STScI: NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Explore the Cores of Merging Galaxies
Researchers will study four nearby merging galaxies in unprecedented detail ...
NOIRLab: A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion
Astronomers detect first-of-its-kind exoplanet around dead star ...
STScI: Hubble Captures Crisp New Portrait of Jupiter’s Storms
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet ...
NOIRLab: A Dizzying Show by Comet NEOWISE
Gemini Observatory images reveal striking details of our recent celestial visitor’s rotation ...
NOIRLab: Cool New Worlds Found in Our Cosmic Backyard
Citizen scientists and NOIRLab facilities key to discovery of almost 100 nearby cool brown dwarfs ...
STScI: Hubble Uses Earth as a Proxy for Identifying Oxygen on Potentially Habitable Planets Around Other Stars
Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth's own brand of sunscreen ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers Sink Their Teeth Into Special Supernova
Astronomers using several telescopes at NOIRLab, including the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope, have obtained critical data on a particular ...
NOIRLab: Gemini Observatory’s Quick Reflexes Capture Fleeting Flash
Rapid follow-up of the optical afterglow from one of the most distant confirmed short gamma-ray bursts (SGRB), thought to be ...
WFIRST Telescope Named For ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
Today, NASA announced that it is naming its next-generation space telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor ...
NSF’s Newest Solar Telescope Produces First Images
Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the Sun’s ...
