Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found.
Apr 13th: The Heaviest Black Hole Pair Every Found
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Mar 9th: IGRINS-2
Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new IGRINS-2 instrument
Feb 10th: 20 Years Of Journey Through The Universe
Today podcast: the Journey Through the Universe staff looks back at the origins of the program, the challenges it has faced, and what their hopes for the next 20 years
Jan 13th: Big Astronomy
Join us today and listen to @halfastro @NOIRLabAstro discussion with Tim Spuck about creating bilingual planetarium show Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries, and where people can see it today.
Dec 9th: The Origins Of Ultra Compact Dwarf Galaxies
have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they transition into ultra-compact dwarf galaxies. Today podcast will discuss about the formation of ultra compact dwarf galaxies.
Nov 11th: The Siena Galaxy Atlas
Astronomers have long sought to map the night skies that can help scientists spot broad patterns across a population of objects, put new discoveries such as transient events in the context of their surroundings, and identify the best candidates for focused observations. And here’s The Siena Galaxy Atlas Project.
Oct 14th: The Cosmic Finch
Today’s NOIRLab Astro discuss about a new supernova event from Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients class that more powerful than the average supernova.
Sep 9th: The First Magnetar Progenitor
Magnetars has the record of the strongest magnetic fields of any object. How magnetars form and produce such colossal magnetic fields remains a mystery.
Aug 12th: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors
Backyard Worlds Cool Neighbors, enlists the public to help identify brown dwarfs from data taken by the NASA Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) satellite. Today podcast will talk about this new project and how the public can help find these elusive brown dwarfs.
Jul 8th: A New Way To Annihilate A Star
A long hypothesized way for stars to end their lives by collisions of stars or stellar remnants in the densely packed area near a galaxy’s massive black hole. More about the first evidence for this new way for a star to end its life on today’s #365DaysOfAstro with @NOIRLab