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NOIRLab: Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution

NOIRLab: Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution

An international team using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in October, will study a portion of the radiated cloud called the Orion Bar to learn more about the influence massive stars have on their environments, and even on the formation of our own solar system.

STScI: Webb to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.

STScI: Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms

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Healing Hubble

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Chryssa Kouveliotou Awarded 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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Remembrance of Goetz Oertel

AURA enables astronomical discovery and promotes broad engagement in exploring the Universe.

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Montage of the telescopes of NOIRLab with data connecting them

NOIRLab

The preeminent US national center for ground-based, nighttime optical and infrared astronomy.
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NSO

Advancing knowledge of the Sun, the dominant external influence on Earth and the local archetype of a typical star.
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STScI

A multi-mission operations center for NASA’s flagship observatories and a world-class astronomical research center.
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