Continuing Updates on the Contreras Fire at Kitt Peak National Observatory
The Contreras Fire reached the Kitt Peak National Observatory during the early morning of Friday 17 June 2022. We are ...
Kitt Peak National Observatory Shuts Down Due to Contreras Fire
A brush fire that has been designated the Contreras Fire is burning near Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in southern ...
NOIRLab: Gemini North Telescope Helps Explain Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors
Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North ...
2022 AURA Annual Meeting
Each year the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) holds an Annual Meeting for the Representatives from its ...
NOIRLab: Galactic Ballet Captured from NSF’s NOIRLab in Chile
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the US Department of ...
Remembering Doug Tody, the ‘Father of IRAF’
Former NOAO employee Doug Tody, who was the visionary behind the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF), has passed away from complications ...
NOIRLab: Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls into View
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter ...
NOIRLab: Sidewinding Young Stellar Jets Spied by Gemini South
Sinuous stellar jets meander lazily across a field of stars in new images captured from Chile by the international Gemini ...
STScI: Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies with NASA’s Webb
An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies ...
NOIRLab: DESI at Kitt Peak Has Mapped More Galaxies Than All Previous 3D Surveys Combined
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has cataloged more galaxies than all other previous three-dimensional redshift surveys combined, measuring 7.5 ...
NOIRLab: Largest Collection of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Milky Way
Using observations and archival data from several of NSF's NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and ...
NOIRLab: Precise Insights into the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Heart
Astronomers have made the most precise measurements yet of the motions of stars around the supermassive black hole at the ...
