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Gemini North telescope reveals Betelgeuse companion
Saturday, July 26, 2025 by Richard Harris
Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National Science Foundation-funded ‘Alopeke instrument on Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the NSF and operated by NSF NOIRLab. Th...
NSF-DOE Rubin first look
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will release its first imagery today at a livestreamed event in Washington, D.C. The imagery will show cosmic pheno...
Raindrops in the Suns Corona
Friday, May 30, 2025 by Richard Harris
A revolutionary advancement in solar observation has been achieved by scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Using an innovative new optical system known as coronal adaptive optics, the research...
Largest solar telescope first light
Monday, May 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) near the summit of Maui’s Haleakalā, reached a major milestone: achieving first light with its most advanced instrument, ...