NOIRLab: Fastest Orbiting Asteroid Discovered at Cerro Tololo
Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers discovered an asteroid with the shortest orbital period of ...
Patrick McCarthy
Director, NSF NOIRLab Patrick McCarthy is the former Vice President of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization and an Astronomer at ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers Uncover Briefest Supernova-Powered Gamma-Ray Burst
Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the implosion of a massive star. Using the international Gemini ...
NOIRLab: Are We Missing Other Earths?
Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars ...
NOIRLab: Giant Comet Found in Outer Solar System by Dark Energy Survey
A giant comet from the outskirts of our Solar System has been discovered in 6 years of data from the ...
NOIRLab: Gemini North Infrared View of Jupiter
Stunning new images of Jupiter from Gemini North and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcase the planet at infrared, visible, ...
NOIRLab: MAROON-X Embarks on its Exoplanet Quest
Astronomers using the recently installed instrument MAROON-X on Gemini North have determined the mass of a transiting exoplanet orbiting the ...
NOIRLab: Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout
With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed ...
NOIRLab: The Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel
The Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was originally designed for the Dark Energy Survey, has captured one of the deepest ...
NOIRLab: Doubling the Number of Known Gravitational Lenses
Data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys have revealed over 1200 new gravitational lenses, approximately doubling ...
NOIRLab: The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Quasar in the Universe
The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is ...
NOIRLab: Dark Energy Camera Snaps Deepest Photo yet of Galactic Siblings
Images from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) reveal a striking family portrait of our galactic neighbors — ...
