![SOAR telescope (left) and Gemini Observatory (right)](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/soar-mw1200-348x198.jpg)
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 ...
![Solar corona during a total solar eclipse](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Tse_2017_mi800_1920-348x198.jpg)
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 ...
![Students participating in Eddington experiment](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/students1500px-348x198.jpg)
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 ...
![A gallery of Magellanic Clouds star clusters](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/smashclusters_gallery-348x198.jpg)
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 ...
![Composite image of people in a field looking at a star with dusty rings](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/backyard-worlds-composite-348x198.jpg)
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 ...
![soar-magnetized-neutron-accreting-black-hole-illustration](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/soar-magnetized-neutron-accreting-black-hole-illustration-full-348x198.jpg)
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) ...
![Image comparing number of objects in sky catalogs](https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/How-Many-Cataloged-Objects-2019-348x198.jpg)
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 ...