Crafting a Legacy in the NOIRLab Instrument Shop

How one machinist discovered his skills and passion for instrument-making

Josie Fenske
27 Sept. 2024
From the Ground Up

Leinani Lozi Honored with 40 Under 40 Award

Award honors Lozi’s work at the intersection of culture and astronomy

Jason Davis
4 Sept. 2024
NOIRLab Nation

AI Aids in Search for Cosmic Gems in Ocean of Data

Astronomers apply machine learning techniques to find early-Universe quasars hidden within archival Dark Energy Survey data

Trisha Muro
10 July 2024
Science Snippets

Earthquakes and Thin Mirrors

How engineers keep state-of-the-art telescopes safe during tectonic trembles

Laura Hiscott
20 May 2024
From the Ground Up

The Charge-Coupled Device: Revolutionizing How Astronomers See the Universe

After 50 Years of Development, What’s on the Horizon?

James Ball
22 April 2024
Innovation@NOIRLab

The Challenges and Charms of In-Person Observing

From sightings of local wildlife to coping with altitude sickness, dive into the world of visiting and working at NOIRLab’s remote mountaintop observatories

Eleanor Spring
1 Feb. 2024
From the Ground Up

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
Science Snippets

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
NOIRLab Nation

Rings of Quaoar

Astronomers discover a second "impossible” ring around the Trans-Neptunian object Quaoar

Josie Fenske
18 May 2023
Science Snippets

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
From the Ground Up

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
Science Snippets

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
Science Snippets

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
Science Snippets
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