ann25013 — Announcement
June Issue of The NOIRLab Mirror Highlights News and Milestones for the NSF NOIRLab Community
16 June 2025
The June 2025 issue of The NOIRLab Mirror is now available. This biannual publication focuses on news and scientific content from across NOIRLab, which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Dive into stories that showcase the science, technology, and developments from the five NSF NOIRLab Programs: the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC), NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), the International Gemini Observatory, NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), and Operations for NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
This issue features a collection of science highlights spanning the breadth of NOIRLab facilities and Programs, including the groundbreaking results from both the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey and the Dark Energy Survey and exciting studies of stars and exoplanets taking place at Gemini Observatory and CTIO. It also features an enthusiastic reflection on recent Rubin Observatory achievements, an activities and status update on the US Extremely Large Telescope Program (US-ELTP) project, a recap of the first year of the newly revived REU/PIA (Research Experiences for Undergraduates/Practices in Astronomy) program in Chile, and much more.
The NOIRLab Mirror is free and notifications of the release of future electronic issues can be requested here. A free subscription for printed copies can also be requested by libraries and research institutions.
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NSF NOIRLab, the U.S. National Science Foundation center for ground-based optical-infrared astronomy, operates the International Gemini Observatory (a facility of NSF, NRC–Canada, ANID–Chile, MCTIC–Brazil, MINCyT–Argentina, and KASI–Republic of Korea), NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC), and NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (in cooperation with DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory). It is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF and is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.
The scientific community is honored to have the opportunity to conduct astronomical research on I’oligam Du’ag (Kitt Peak) in Arizona, on Maunakea in Hawai‘i, and on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón in Chile. We recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence of I’oligam Du’ag to the Tohono O’odham Nation, and Maunakea to the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) community.
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Josie Fenske
Jr. Public Information Officer
NSF NOIRLab
Email: josie.fenske@noirlab.edu
