NOAO: Automated Observing Network Inaugurated at SOAR Telescope
Supernovae, neutron star mergers, black holes at the center of galaxies, erupting young stars — these are all examples of ...
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 ...
NOAO: Commemorating 100 years of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Team of University of La Serena students to recreate the Eddington Experiment that proved Einstein right ...
NOAO: Cosmic Fireworks in the Clouds: Volunteer Detectives Sought for Magellanic Clouds Cluster Search
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they ...
NOAO: Citizen Scientists Invited to Join Quest for New Worlds
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search ...
NOAO: Unusual Supernova Opens a Rare Window on the Collapse of a Star
An unusual supernova studied by multiple telescopes, including the SOAR telescope and other telescopes at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) ...
NOAO: A Survey Machine and a Data Trove – Dark Energy Survey’s Rich Legacy
On the night of 9 January 2019, the V. M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Cerro ...