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
Science Snippets

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

Rings around a rosy star system are destined for interstellar space

NOIRLab astronomer Ryan Lau, one of the first people to use JWST, observed a pair of interacting stars that are puffing out concentric rings of dust

Laura Hiscott
12 Oct. 2022
NOIRLab Science

A glimpse of the first stars that lit up the Universe?

The Gemini North telescope might have captured the first evidence of a first-generation star — and a kind of supernova never seen before.

Laura Hiscott
28 Sept. 2022
Science Snippets

GHOST in the machine: Gemini’s powerful spectrograph

A brand new instrument has joined the astronomical armoury at the Gemini South telescope that will study the chemistry of the Universe

Gemma Lavender
20 July 2022
Science Snippets

Teen Astronomy Café — To Go: A New Twist on Data in the Classroom

NOIRLab’s gateway for igniting interest in astronomy and STEAM in high-school students goes online

Gemma Lavender
28 June 2022
EPO@NOIRLab

Probing dark matters in the Universe with Rubin

Vera C. Rubin Observatory could help find critical answers to questions first posed by the observatory’s namesake half a century ago

Gemma Lavender
17 May 2022
On the Horizon

How Rubin will uncover secrets of the Milky Way’s history

While Vera C. Rubin Observatory will probe the Universe’s deepest depths, it will also reveal more about our very own home galaxy

Gemma Lavender
20 April 2022
On the Horizon

Tracking transients with Rubin

A key part of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s mission is to spot everything in the sky that changes

Gemma Lavender
5 April 2022
On the Horizon

Vera C. Rubin Observatory: New window on the Universe

NOIRLab’s newest Program is set to transform astronomy by performing the largest survey of the Universe, both near and far, ever undertaken

Gemma Lavender
4 March 2022
On the Horizon

NEID: New hunter of potentially habitable planets

Homing in on Earth-sized planets in the "Goldilocks zone" of other stars, Hot Jupiters, Warm Neptunes and a menagerie of worlds

Gemma Lavender
15 Feb. 2022
Science Snippets

AEON: Tracking things that go bump in the night

New automated systems are being developed to deal with the millions of transient objects that Vera C. Rubin Observatory will detect

Gemma Lavender
16 Dec. 2021
From the Ground Up

How students discovered the early Universe’s brightest gravitationally lensed galaxy

With the help of NOIRLab’s observatories, young researchers have discovered a galaxy that existed just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang

Gemma Lavender
30 Nov. 2021
Science Snippets

The legacy of Sidney Wolff

The prolific former Director of the NOAO, Kitt Peak National Observatory, US-ELTP and the Gemini Telescope Project retires, leaving behind a legacy of telescope-facility excellence

Gemma Lavender
17 Nov. 2021
NOIRLab Nation

A glimpse into the Solar System’s future

How studying the fate of planetary systems around dead stars is revealing more about both the nature of exoplanets and what will happen to Earth when the Sun dies

Gemma Lavender
2 Nov. 2021
NOIRLab Science

John Blakeslee: A passion for telescopes

Large or small, NOIRLab’s Head of Science Staff for Observatory Support can’t get enough of the instruments that reveal the cosmos

Gemma Lavender
20 Oct. 2021
NOIRLab Nation
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