NOIRLab: Dark Energy Camera Snaps Deepest Photo yet of Galactic Siblings

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

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

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 ...
NEUTRON-STAR COLLISION RELEASES PUZZLING BURST OF INFRARED LIGHT

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

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

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

NOIRLab: Astronomers are Bulging with Data

Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way ...
NOIRLab: Looking Sharp: Most Detailed Image Yet of Famous Stellar Nursery

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

STScI: Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade into Oblivion

Disappearing Supernova in Distant Galaxy Captured in Hubble Movie ...
This is a stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the barred spiral Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 (Arp 298, Mrk 1514)

STScI: NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Explore the Cores of Merging Galaxies

Researchers will study four nearby merging galaxies in unprecedented detail ...
Artist’s impression of WD 1856b

NOIRLab: A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion

Astronomers detect first-of-its-kind exoplanet around dead star ...
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth.

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 ...