NOAO Home Page Image Archive
The last 5 images that have appeared on the NOAO Home Page.
February 18, 2013
Credit: Nicholas Moskovitz (MIT)
Asteroid 2012 DA14 Speeds Away from Earth
An international team led by Nicholas Moskovitz (MIT), observed the asteroid with a number of telescopes, including the 2.1m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory: the accompanying video (600x600 pixel .gif) shows the asteroid as it was leaving the vicinity of the earth.
February 11, 2013
Credit: John Glaspey
Miss Tohono O’odham 2013
Miss Tohono O’odham 2013 and her court visited the NOAO booth at the 75th Annual Tohono O’odham Rodeo & Fair, Feb 1-3. Shown in the picture: (L2R) Katy Garmany, Lori Allen, 1st Attendant Jaylene Wood, 2nd Attendant Raven Johnson, and Miss Tohono O’odham Nation Hon’mana Sekteoma. Jaylene Wood sang an O’odham traditional song describing an eagle soaring over Kitt Peak. See an article about the Fair in the March NOAO Newsletter.
December 04, 2012
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), WIYN ODI team & WIYN/NOAO/AURA/NSF
The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) captured by the new ODI camera on WIYN
This wide field view, showing the nebulosity carved out by the winds of the massive central star, demonstrates the exquisite image quality. An image of the central portion of the nebula, cosmetically corrected, is found here.
September 17, 2012
Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO sees first light
Left: Full Dark Energy Camera image of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth. The center of the cluster is the clump of galaxies in the upper portion of the image. The prominent galaxy in the lower right of the image is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365.
Right: Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365.
September 10, 2012
One Degree Imager debuts at WIYN telescope
Left: M15, a globular cluster in the summer sky. This image was taken using only one filter, so it appears in black/white. Future images will be possible in multiple filters for a color rendition.
Top right: The moon in the daytime with a 3.5m telescope. This shows just the central 3 X 3 subarray of detectors.
Bottom right: The ODI installation team at the telescope.
Link to all previous images [257].
