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Science info from NSF NOIRLab: the U.S. national center for ground-based, nighttime optical & infrared astronomy. Main channel is at @NOIRLabAstro noirlab.edu/science/ Joined March 2023-
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First of its kind! ✨ Astronomers have discovered the only known quadruple system with a pair of T-type brown dwarfs orbiting two stars. They are located in the constellation Antlia, 82 light-years away. Read more: ras.ac.uk/news-and-press… Credit: Jiaxin Zhong/Zenghua Zhang
"📅 Save the date! The @VRubinObs Community Workshop 2026 will take place 27–31 July at SLAC ✨ @VRubinObs is seeking nominations for the Target of Opportunity Advisory Board (deadline: Aug 31, 2025) 🔗ow.ly/sH2F50WO86v 📷 RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek
🌌 New research using @NOIRLabAstro @KittPeakNatObs program shows that galaxy clusters align like cosmic highways, tracing dark matter structures across the universe. This alignment offers a glimpse into the universe's early formation. 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384… Image: M. West
🧑💻✨ Join @noiralbastro @usngo for a hands-on DRAGONS data reduction webinar at: 📅 Sept 2 (10am MST / 1pm EDT) 📅 Sept 3 (3pm HST / 6pm MST) Learn GMOS imaging + long-slit reduction via Jupyter 🔗 ow.ly/fi9r50WO7Z1
🌌 Dive into the @VRubinObs publications! Explore the latest research and discoveries from one of the most ambitious sky surveys ever here- ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-librari… 🚀📚
Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! 🔗 ow.ly/X87R50WJv4y
🌌✨ @NOIRLabastro@RubinObs caught interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS 🚀🪐 days before discovery—opening a new window on Solar System science! 🔭📸 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409
🎓✈️ Amazing opportunity! Six undergrads will head to La Serena, Chile for the NOIRLab REU Chile program — where it’s summer in January ☀️ — for 10 weeks of hands-on astronomy research 📍 On-site at La Serena, Chile 📅 Apply by 15 Sep 2025 📍 Program runs 12 Jan – 13 Mar 2026
☄️ Interstellar alert! The NSF–DOE @VRubinObs has captured this video of Comet 3I/ATLAS — the third interstellar object ever discovered — 10 days before its official detection on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey. #RubinObservatory #Comet3I #Astronomy #Science
Say it 3 times: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Astronomers using @GeminiObs North found a hidden companion star orbiting inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere, the first close-in companion ever seen around a supergiant star. 🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/no… 📷GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Checkout @AAS_Office latest author series video featuring science using the ZORRO speckle imager 🦊@GeminiObs to identify stellar binaries 🌌🔭 youtube.com/watch?v=0J-HV7…
🚨@NOIRLabAstro Conference: The Solar System in Context 🌌 📍 Tucson | 🗓️ 29 Sep–2 Oct 🌟 Explore planetary systems from the Solar System to exoplanets! 📝 Abstracts due: 11 July ✅ Register by: 15 September 🔗noirlab.edu/science/events…
🚨 Meet 2024 YR4 — a fast-spinning, oddly shaped Earth-crossing asteroid just 30–65 m wide discovered using GMOS-S @GeminiObs , revealing clues about its rocky origins in the Main Belt. Space rocks don’t get cooler than this! 🔭💥 Image credit: ApJL/B. Bolin
🚀 Help shape the future of the @NOIRLabAstro @GeminiObs We're inviting YOU to guide the next decades of science, instruments & discovery at Gemini North & South. 🌌 Take the Strategic Vision Survey & make your voice heard: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Revealing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebula as never seen before, by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs This 📷 combines 678 separate exposures in over 7 hours of observing time. Rubin captures huge images fast, thanks to its ultra-wide view and unmatched speed 📷RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
The sky never stops changing and NSF–DOE @VRubinObs is watching with the world’s largest camera! In this 🎥 Rubin showcases 46 subtly pulsating stars. In the next 10 years, Rubin will detect ~100,000 of them, helping map the Milky Way’s halo 📹RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
🚨Epic! NSF–DOE @VRubinObs discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our Solar System! ☄️ Currently, all the world's observatories discover ~20,000 asteroids per year. Rubin discovered over 2,100 in just a few nights! 📹: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA #RubinFirstLook
This is it. The FIRST released video from @VRubinObs. A new era of astronomy starts now! ✨ How many galaxies do you think are in this image? 10 MILLION 🤯 Here, Rubin’s view is focused on the southern region of the Virgo Cluster. 📹: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
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