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 ...
NOIRLab: Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We Thought
Rocky debris, the pieces of a former rocky planet that has broken up, spiral inward toward a white dwarf in ...
Final Filters Delivered for Rubin Observatory Camera
After nearly a decade of work, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has delivered the last of the six filters built ...
Conclusions from Satellite Constellations 2 Released
The Satellite Constellations 2 (SATCON2) workshop, held 12–16 July 2021, brought together more than 350 astronomers, satellite operators, dark-sky advocates, ...
NOIRLab: Plunging into the Furnace
The denizens of the Fornax galaxy cluster populate this image from the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, located in Chile ...
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, ...
