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 ...
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 ...
