Our Mysterious Universe Still Evades Cosmological Understanding
Science can uncover new knowledge, but it can also reveal what we don’t understand. New research is shedding light on ...
NOIRLab: First Kilonova Progenitor System Identified
Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have uncovered ...
NOIRLab: Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering ...
NOIRLab: Dark Energy Camera Captures Bright, Young Stars Blazing Inside Glowing Nebula
NOIRLab has released a breathtaking image of the star-forming Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357), which is located about 8000 light-years from ...
NOIRLab: Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls into View
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter ...
NOIRLab: Largest Collection of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Milky Way
Using observations and archival data from several of NSF's NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and ...
NOIRLab: Plunging into the Furnace
The denizens of the Fornax galaxy cluster populate this image from the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, located in Chile ...
NOIRLab: Fastest Orbiting Asteroid Discovered at Cerro Tololo
Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers discovered an asteroid with the shortest orbital period of ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers are Bulging with Data
Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way ...
AURA Observatory: 5th Anniversary of the First Dark Sky Sanctuary in the World
Five years ago, on 9 August 2015, at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawai’i, the International Dark-Sky ...
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 ...
A Stroke of Astronomical Luck for Solar Science
On July 2, 2019 a total solar eclipse will pass over Chile and Argentina, and through a stroke of astronomical ...