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CTIO with blue mountain ranges
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory amid mountain ranges
Inside Gemini South dome
NGC 7232/3
Night sky over CTIO telescopes
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory panorama
Phases of 2019 July 2 Solar Eclipse
CTIO panorama
CTIO panorama in moonlight
CTIO panorama in fisheye
CTIO SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope and Moon
CTIO fish-eye view
Aerial view of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Gemini South at Cerro Pachón
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Sunset at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
Star trails over KPNO 2.1-meter Telescope
Bok Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory
Snowy Maunakea
Gemini North
Kitt Peak National Observatory aerial view
Gemini South primary mirror prep (shutdown & re-coating)
Gemini North vent-gates and telescope
Gemini North - Aerial
GMOS Returns to Gemini South
Comet NEOWISE Over Gemini North
Comet NEOWISE Over Gemini North
Sunset in the McMath Pierce Heliostat
Supernova SN2011fe in M101
Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1313
Pōniuāʻena, the second most distant quasar ever discovered
Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar
Minimoon 2020 CD3 in Color
Fast Radio Burst 180916 Host Galaxy (annotated)
LSST at Sunset
Artist’s concept of the SN 2016iet pair-instability supernova
SOAR Telescope (left) and Gemini South (right)
Artist’s impression of CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder
AO Image NGC 7009
Superbubble Complex N44
Thirty Meter Telescope AAS 2022 Graphic
Recently Discovered Dwarf Galaxy Donatiello II
NOIRLab Headquarters Building
Cerro Tololo Sunset 360 Panorama
Vera C. Rubin Observatory at Twilight
Sunset over Cerro Tololo
Venus over Kitt Peak
The Thirty Meter Telescope illustration
Rubin Top-End Assembly installation
Portrait of a Needle Galaxy
Fireball over Maunakea in 2006
AEON-figure-vision2040
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Preparing for restart at Kitt Peak National Observatory
Preparing for restart at SOAR
Night sky over Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Aerial view of Kitt Peak National Observatory
Cerro Pachon with Gemini and SOAR telescopes
Kitt Peak National Observatory sunrise panorama
Gemini South primary mirror prep (shutdown & re-coating)
Gemini South telescope sans mirror (shutdown & re-coating)
Star PV Cep
Monoceros R2 Molecular Cloud
Take II on an Interstellar Comet
Planetary Nebula Sh2-174
Medusa nebula, Abell 21
Rubin Observatory's secondary mirror is installed onto the telescope
SOAR Telescope in the snow.
Artist’s Impression of Heaviest Supermassive Binary Black Hole
Thirty Meter Telescope Mirror
Cerro Pachón
Vera C. Rubin Observatory at Sunset
Neutron Star Merger in the Early Universe
Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter telescope
Triple Conjunction over Kitt Peak National Observatory
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 28 Aug. 2020
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Parker Fagrelius working on ProtoDESI
CK Vulpeculae seen with Gemini North
Close-up photo of DECam
Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope in Andean sunset
Composite of phases of the lunar eclipse as seen from Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPNO 2.1-meter Telescope
SOAR Telescope
Snowy Maunakea
Star trails over the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Star trails over the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Star trails over the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope
Gemini North telescope
Gemini North telescope
Gemini North vent-gates and telescope
Maunakea panorama - sunset
The Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Dusty Nebula, LBN 438
Spiral galaxy NGC 891
A Whirlpool Warhol:The Changing Face of Galaxies from the Visible to the Infrared
N159W GeMS/GSAOI Image
Orion Bullets Mosaic
NGC 1333
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Gemini Staff Teach ʻOhana about Stellar Formation
GNIRS' new 3D vision resolves the double nuclei of the galaxy NGC 6240.
Wide-field View of NGC 1532
Thirty Meter Telescope at night
Lunar Eclipse from Start to Finish
The NOIRLab/Gemini team pose with the newly recoated primary mirror.
Gemini North telescope - side view
Moonrise over McMath-Pierce
Contreras Fire Reaches Kitt Peak National Observatory
Gemini North Mirror Cleaning
Gemini North Cleaning
The Giant Magellan Telescope Exterior Illustration
Are We Alone?
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 28 Aug. 2020
The Nicolas U. Mayall 4-Meter Telescope
DESI's volume phase holographic grating
CTIO telescopes at sunset
Maunakea summit at night
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Rubin Observatory at sunset
The UArizona 12-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory
Comet NEOWISE over Kitt Peak National Obervatory
The Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Gemini North telescope
Gemini South primary mirror prep (shutdown & re-coating)
Gemini North telescope and primary mirror
Gemini North with CFHT
Gemini North Sunset
Open Cluster IC 1311
Reflection Nebula IC426
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946
Excerpt of main image without lensing map
Sharp/Unsharp Lucky Imaging
Gemini North Under a Milky Bow
Honolulu skyline
Dark Energy Survey begins five-year mission to map southern sky in tremendous detail
LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory
Artist’s impression of a dwarf galaxy undergoing tidal stripping
Gemini North’s New 3D Vision
Thirty Meter Telescope Night Sky
Cerro Tololo Sunset 360 Panorama
Illustration of an ultracool dwarf with a companion white dwarf
A Very Wooly Galaxy
Rubin inspection trip on 11 August 2020
DESI corrector lens
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory aerial view
Gemini South at sunset
Cerro Pachon with Gemini and SOAR telescopes
The Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Maunakea summit area - aerial
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Maunakea Observatories
WIYN 0.9m at dusk
Emission Nebula Sh2-114
NGC 6334, The Cat’s Paw Nebula
Twisted Spiral Galaxy NGC 3718
Panorama of Spiral Galaxy, M33
NEID First Light team
Summit Multimedia Visit 2017
Gemini North dome repairs complete
Fast, Furious, Refined: Smaller Black Holes Can Eat Plenty
Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
Nearby Galaxies Illustrate the Power of the Gemini Deep Deep Survey
The LSST Camera installed on the telescope
Installing the 0.6-meter Shreve telescope at KPVC
Installing the 0.6-meter Shreve telescope at KPVC
Installing the 0.6-meter Shreve telescope at KPVC
Installing the 0.6-meter Shreve telescope at KPVC
Installing the 0.6-meter Shreve telescope at KPVC
Rubin Observatory at Twilight
Rubin Observatory in December 2022
Full Moon With Rubin and Crane
Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (AuxTel)
Rubin in September 2023
Rubin Observatory and Venus at sunset
Rubin at Sunset
The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (rotated)
Installing the 0.6-meter Shreve telescope at KPVC
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) at dawn over CTIO
Windows On The Universe Center For Astronomy Outreach
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Kitt Peak Panorama
Snow day at Vera C. Rubin Observatory
DESI Year-One Data Slice
Gemini North
Rubin at Sunset in December 2023
Rubin at sunset
Rubin Observatory and Seeing Monitor
Gemini North Near Maunakea
Zorro on Gemini South
Cerro Pachón Hotel Night Sky Fulldome
Wider crop of the NGC 1512 image
An Astronomical Chilean Sunset
Gemini South Control Room
Cass Wrap Maintenance
Gemini South Control Room
Gemini South Shutdown
FLAMINGOS-2 Maintenance
Interior work on Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Learning about the colors of the universe
Inside Canopus
IREX Group Shot 2019
Drone July 2021
TEXES Installation at GN 2013
A&G Engineering Shutdown
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Cerro Pachón from Road
Rubin Construction activity on Cerro Pachón
Gemini South Telescope Control Room
Starry Sky over the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope
Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter telescope
Discovery image of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (annotated)
Andromeda Galaxy with DESI Overlay
Some Assembly Required
Project ASTRO
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 28 Aug. 2020
Kitt Peak National Observatory at night
AstroDay 2015 Hilo Hawaii
Live from Gemini
VIP Solar Eclipse Talk 2019
Engineer Vanessa Montes
Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope with DECam
Gemini South and SOAR
Aerial view of the Arizona Radio Observatory
Gemini South 2019 shutdown
Gemini Observatory telescope shutdown
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Night sky over Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Milky Way above Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
Aerial view of Kitt Peak National Observatory
Aerial photograph of CTIO
CTIO in Snow
CTIO aerial view
Mirror coating at Gemini South
Robo-AO at the KPNO 2.1-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory
Star trails over the WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
The WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory
Sunrise at the WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory