NOIRLab

Dark Energy Camera Captures Bright, Young Stars Blazing Inside Glowing Nebula

By scanning the sky very close to the horizon at sunrise, the SOAR Telescope in Chile, part of Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of...

Crystal-clear images of meandering bipolar stellar jets from young stars captured with adaptive optics

Using the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered the first example of a binary system where a star in the process of...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the...

Plunging into the Furnace.

Dark Energy Camera captures a detailed view of a striking peculiar galaxy.

The fastest Orbiting Asteroid Discovered at NOIRLab’s CTIO is About a kilometer across, space rock 2021 PH27 is the Sun’s nearest neighbor.

Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031.

The first three years of survey data use observations of 226 million galaxies over ⅛ of the sky.

An Astronomer’s menagerie.