Image Archive: Illustrations

M74 over Mauna Kea Star Trails

NGC 1929 Reflection in Primary MIrror

NICI prepares for Planet Searching

Classic and Digital Versions of GLOBE at Night Thrive in 2007

Dusting for Clues: Gemini Discovers Evidence for Colliding Bodies in Planet Forming Disk

Gemini's Global Positioning

How Adaptive Optics (AO) Works

The facility sketch for the Gemini Observatory Southern Operations Center. July 2001

A Day in the Life of an Observatory

Population III Star Explodes as a Pair-Instability Supernova

The US Extremely Large Telescope Program illustration

The unusually short orbit of 2021 PH27 (no annotations)

Infographic showing the unusually short orbit of 2021 PH27 (Spanish)

AURATransparent

Atmosphere Diagram

Illustration of the black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way

How Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Are Used to Measure the Expanding Universe

Artist's interpretation of a close binary star system

Every Picture Tells a Story

Gemini North LGS / Bullets Montage

NOAO Original Logo, February 1984

NOIRLab and the Astro2020 Decadal Survey: Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s

Masked Mayall

Mrk 231 Black Hole

The night sky from Tucson on 5 March after sunset. Hilo will have a similar view. From La Serena, the lineup will appear in the northwest and more diagonally, with Mars on the right pointing to Jupiter, the Moon, and M45 on the left.

Infographic of of Heaviest Supermassive Binary Black Hole

Artist Impression: Interstellar object rapidly approaching our Solar System

NOIRLab’s current and potential future system

LSST 2018 Calendar

LSST Operations: Sites & Data FLows

Telescope 45 tilt

Facility Cutaway

LSST in Profile

Up Close

Close-up of Telescope in the Dome

Facility Exterior at Night

Facilities Building with Simulated Night Sky

Dome Opening

LSST and Calibration Telescope

LSST Facility 2011

LSST Facility at Night 2011

Facilities Building at Sunset

M1M3 and M2 Mirrors

Base Facility in La Serena

Camera

Optical Elements

Optical Elements at Sunset

Optical Elements

Close-up of Telescope in Dome

Telescope