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18 September 2002: Taken at Kitt Peak has been turned into a popular poster available for purchase at the Visitor Center.

9 September 2002: Was discussed several times at the recent Workshop on Science Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids.

4 August 2002: is located in the constellation of Sagittarius. This stunning image of the much-photographed, dynamic cloud of gas and dust, was taken at the Gemini North Observatory with the GMOS instrument, which uses software developed by NOAO.

15 July 2002: Is a richly populated star cluster in the Milky Way whose stellar population has surprising similarities to the Sun's composition.

20 June 2002: Is the bluish dot to the right of the center of the galaxy NGC 5018 in this image taken by the 0.9-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile on 14 June 2002.

30 May 2002: At a distance of just 3 AU in this adaptive optics image from Gemini North. NOAO Image Credit: Gemini Observatory/Melanie Freed, Laird Close, Nick Siegler University of Arizona/ Hokupa'a-QUIRC image, University of Hawaii, IfA

9 April 2002: The WIYN 3.5-meter telescope on Kitt Peak took this image of the Ring Nebula (left) on April 2, 2002 aided by the new WIYN Tip-Tilt Module (WTTM). This adaptive optics device helps correct for degradation of the telescope's imaging quality due to atmospheric effects and shaking of the telescope by wind.

31 March 2002: In the infrared, centered around the Brackett Alpha emission line, is shown in this composite image of 42 frames obtained by the Abu thermal infrared camera on the Gemini South 8-meter telescope. Abu was built by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.

20 February 2002: shows a myriad of hot blue massive stars and several famous nebulae in impressive detail in this new color image taken at the Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile by the NOAO Local Group Galaxies Survey Team.

8 January 2002: A planetary nebula produced by a star that was once like our Sun. This image was obtained with the "Abu" thermal-infrared camera built by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and was released in honor of the dedication of Gemini South on January 18, 2002.

29 November 2001: Astronomers using the recently commissioned Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have discovered a protoplanetary disk orbiting one of the stars in a newborn quadruple star system.

25 November 2001: The blue dot in the center of this image (highlighted by a blue arrow) is the optical light signature of Gamma Ray Burst 011121. It was taken with the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile on November 23. The reddish dot adjoining the transient gamma ray burst, at its lower left, is probably the core of the galaxy in which the gamma ray burst occurred.