The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is currently under construction in Chile and launched their Education And Public Outreach (EPO) program. Today, Stephanie Deppe discuss about Rubin EPO program with @halfastro at #365DaysOfAstro
When a Sun-like star nears the end of its life and eventually engulfing the system’s inner planets. Today podcast will discuss about how astronomers caught one in the act.
Galaxies grow through mergers with other galaxies. Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) astronomers have studied the merger history of the Andromeda Galaxy for the first time. So today we will learn about the immigration history of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Kilonova form when two neutron stars collide. They were first discovered by their gravitational wave emissions. Today we discuss about the discovery of a system that will become a kilonova in the future.
Light pollution has been impacting our view of the heavens for many years and @GlobeatNight data shows the night sky is brightening more than previously thought based on satellite measurements.
Today’s @NOIRLabAstro discuss about the first results from M-dwarf Advanced Radial velocity Observer Of Neighboring eXoplanets a.k.a MAROON-X with Dr. Jacob Bean
Today’s @NOIRLabAstro will have @halfastro discuss with Kareem El-Badry on how he led a team that discovered a black hole that is not actively consuming material and that is also the closest currently known black hole to Earth.
A recent gamma ray burst appears to be the brightest of all time and was observed very quickly by multiple instruments. In this podcast, Jillian Rastinejad discusses the discovery of this gamma ray burst and the follow up observations with the Gemini International Observatory
The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is an extremely powerful imager mounted on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DECam has 570 megapixels that cover 3 square degrees of the sky. In this podcast, Alistair Walker describes the history of the Dark Energy Camera, its first 10 years in operation, and looks to what the future holds.
By harnessing the capabilities of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, which is part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers have obtained the sharpest image ever of the star R136a1, the most massive known star in the Universe.