AURA Response to NSF’s US ELT External Evaluation Panel Report
AURA, and the organizations behind Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope, GMTO & TIO, acknowledge the findings of ...
NEID Earth Twin Survey Delivers On Its Goal to Push the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery
For four years the NEID (rhymes with fluid) spectrograph, mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory ...
DESI Provides Best Test Yet of How Gravity Behaves at Cosmic Scales
Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to map nearly six million galaxies across 11 billion years of ...
NSF Representatives and US Senate Staffers Visit AURA Facilities in Chile
U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee staffers, along with representatives from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Embassy, visited the AURA/NOIRLab ...
Gemini North Captures Galactic Archipelago Entangled in a Web of Dark Matter
100 years ago Edwin Hubble discovered decisive evidence that other galaxies existed far beyond the Milky Way. This image, captured ...
Simonyi Survey Telescope Dedicated at NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Ceremony
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory celebrated a landmark moment in astronomy and astrophysics with the dedication of the Simonyi Survey ...
DECam Confirms that Early-Universe Quasar Neighborhoods are Indeed Cluttered
Observations using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) confirm astronomers’ expectation that early-Universe quasars formed in regions of space densely populated ...
Queen Berenice II’s Hair Tied Together by Dark Matter
The Dark Energy Camera captures an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named after the hair of Queen Berenice II ...
Gemini North Captures Starburst Galaxy Blazing Bright With Newly Forming Stars
A festive array of bright pinks and blues makes for a remarkable sight in this image captured with the Gemini ...
International Gemini Observatory and Subaru Combine Forces to Discover First Ever Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
Since the very first instant after the Big Bang the Universe has been expanding. This means that the early Universe ...
AURA Annual Meeting 2024
On a bright April morning in Tucson, Arizona, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy’s (AURA) Annual Meeting kicked ...
Dark Energy Camera Spies Cometary Globule Reaching for the Stars
The dark, dusty cometary globule known as CG 4 is spotlighted in this image from the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark ...
