Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
Mark Your Calendars! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Unveil First Look Images on 23 June 2025
We invite you to attend the live stream of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Look event, taking place on ...
Circinus West: A Dark Nebula Harboring a Nest of Newly Formed Stars
A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated ...
NSF NOIRLab Astronomer Discovers Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy in the Universe
An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to date ...
Gemini South Observes Shape and Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4
Using observations from the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the ...
Tantalizing Hints That Dark Energy is Evolving — New Results and Data Released by the DESI Project
The DESI collaboration has published a new analysis of dark energy using their first three years of collected data, which ...
Planetary System Found Around Nearest Single Star
Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National ...
DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and ...
Gemini North Teams Up With LOFAR to Reveal Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe
From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and ...
DECam and Gemini South Discover Three Tiny ‘Stellar-Ghost-Town’ Galaxies
By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf ...
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 ...
