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Peering Back to the Early Universe: A Story of Confirmation and Refutation
NOIRLab Astronomers Use JWST to Observe the Universe's Earliest Galaxies and Uncover a Cunning ‘Mimic’
Charles Blue
19 Sept. 2023
NOIRLab Science
Accretion Disks: How Big Are They Really?
First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole’s accretion disk expand astronomers’ understanding of these fascinating structures
Josie Fenske
24 Aug. 2023
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An Enigmatic Cosmic Crime Scene
Buried within NOIRLab’s unWISE archive lies a remarkable tidal disruption event, overlooked for many years because of its unusual location and characteristics
Chiara Villanueva
3 Aug. 2023
NOIRLab Science
Newly Launched Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors Project Assembles Team of Citizen Scientists to Hunt for Brown Dwarfs in Our Cosmic Backyard
Citizen science and machine learning join forces to search for brown dwarfs in the Sun's local cosmic neighborhood
Josie Fenske
20 July 2023
On the Horizon
The Dark Energy Survey: Uncovering the Invisible
It may not be dark and it may not be energy, but there’s a lot of it and scientists want to know more about it — that’s where DES comes in.
Eleanor Spring
5 July 2023
NOIRLab Science
Guided Tours of NOIRLab’s Telescopes to Return in July
Public visits to some of NOIRLab’s world-class observatories are now gradually restarting following a hiatus during the pandemic, a wildfire, and the Gemini North mirror incident.
Laura Hiscott
23 June 2023
EPO@NOIRLab
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst and Its Ordinary Supernova
One of the closest and most powerful gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever seen could change the way that we think about these titanic explosions.
Gemma Lavender
14 June 2023
NOIRLab Science
The UArizona 12-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak Is Part of Something Much Bigger: the Event Horizon Telescope
Radio telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory helps explore the most extreme objects in the Universe
Chiara Villanueva
8 June 2023
NOIRLab Science
Reflections on Helmut Abt
Colleagues Share Thoughts on a Pioneer in Astronomy
Chiara Villanueva
26 May 2023
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Rings of Quaoar
Astronomers discover a second "impossible” ring around the Trans-Neptunian object Quaoar
Josie Fenske
18 May 2023
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A Day in the Life of an Observatory
A look into the diverse team of people who keep NOIRLab observatories running 24/7
Josie Fenske
26 April 2023
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Forecast for Titan: Using Stars to Study Atmosphere on Saturn’s Moon
Two rare stellar occultation events gave astronomers a chance to uncover details about Titan’s atmospheric wind patterns.
Josie Fenske
11 April 2023
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Dark Sky Protection: We Are Losing the Universe
From city lights to satellite constellations, the heritage of the night sky is quickly slipping away
Chiara Villanueva
16 March 2023
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Tracing Dark Matter Across the Spectrum and Across the Cosmos
Two cosmological surveys of the southern sky combine forces to place powerful new constraints on the Standard Model of cosmology.
Josie Fenske
10 March 2023
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Unveiling Networks of Stellar Nurseries in Nearby Galaxies
NOIRLab’s Janice Lee and her team used JWST to study star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths
Gemma Lavender
16 Feb. 2023
NOIRLab Science
Getting to Know our Galactic Neighborhood
Inside the hunt for the Milky Way’s smallest neighbors.
Calum Spring-Turner
10 Feb. 2023
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Photographing the World at Night: First of NOIRLab’s Ambassadors Program
World-renowned nightscape photographer Babak Tafreshi is a champion of promoting the night sky to the public, and how we all share the same stars.
Gemma Lavender
26 Jan. 2023
NOIRLab Nation
Science Shines Bright at the ‘World Cup’ of Astronomy and Astrophysics
NOIRLab Joins the Global Astronomy Community at 2023 AAS Winter Meeting
Charles Blue
6 Jan. 2023
NOIRLab Nation
New images of a planetary nebula suggest a cosmic crime scene
NOIRLab astronomer Letizia Stanghellini has co-authored a new paper telling a different story of an object that astronomers thought they knew
Laura Hiscott
8 Dec. 2022
NOIRLab Science
60 Years of Discovery from Cerro Tololo, the Observatory on the ‘Edge of the Abyss’
On 23 November 1962 astronomers and engineers selected Cerro Tololo as the ideal site for a new observatory, launching an unprecedented era of exploration, discovery, and learning.
Laura Hiscott
23 Nov. 2022
From the Ground Up
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