Image credit: P. Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF, GMTO, TIO
Announcing: the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program
To enhance U.S. scientific leadership in astronomy and astrophysics, and enable the broader U.S. community to to take advantage of the power of ground-based extremely large optical-infrared telescopes (ELTs), the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO), and the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TIO) have embarked on the development of a U.S. Extremely Large Telescope (US-ELT) Program.
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Components for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) recently arrived at KPNO and were delivered inside the 4-m Mayall enclosure. -
A Snake in the Clouds: A New Dwarf Galaxy in the Magellanic Bridge. Astronomers using DECam on the CTIO Blanco 4m detected the new galaxy in the stream of gas linking the LMC & SMC. -
The April 2018 NOAO Newsletter is online and ready to download. It contains sections on Science Highlights, Community Science & Data, System Observing, and NOAO Operations & Staff. -
Exploding Star Shines Bright, Fades Fast in a discovery made
by a team that includes NOAO astronomers A. Zenteno and
C. Smith. Read more in the Notre Dame Press Release. -
DECam Community Science Workshop 2018: Science Highlights, Coming Opportunities, LSST Synergies.
May 21-22, 2018
Tucson, Arizona -
A Runaway Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The discovery was made using the CTIO 4-m Blanco telescope. Read more in Lowell Observatory press release.
