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NOIRLab image of the week

A blazing meteor pops into the sky above Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2622a/

#NOIRLab #Astronomy #Meteor #KittPeak #Tucosn #Arizona #Astrodon #photography #astrophotography

NOIRLab image of the week

A blazing meteor pops into the sky above Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2622a/

#NOIRLab #Astronomy #Meteor #KittPeak #Tucosn #Arizona #Astrodon #photography #astrophotography

This week's episode on #Sagitta is focused on the #astronomy in the constellation, which means -- #astrophotography from this constellation ahead this week!!!

Here we have the Little Cocoon Nebula aka Little Trifid Nebula aka Sh2-82. It is an emission nebula surrounded by a reflection nebula. while it wasn't our gold star winner, this is a dazzling image!

Listen to the #podcast episode here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/sagitta-cosmic-background/

📷 : https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-sh2-82/

#astronomy #astrodon #space #science #NASA #KittPeak #NOIRLab #stars #nebula #astrophotography

This week's episode on #Sagitta is focused on the #astronomy in the constellation, which means -- #astrophotography from this constellation ahead this week!!!

Here we have the Little Cocoon Nebula aka Little Trifid Nebula aka Sh2-82. It is an emission nebula surrounded by a reflection nebula. while it wasn't our gold star winner, this is a dazzling image!

Listen to the #podcast episode here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/sagitta-cosmic-background/

📷 : https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-sh2-82/

#astronomy #astrodon #space #science #NASA #KittPeak #NOIRLab #stars #nebula #astrophotography

#MPIfR:
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Neue EHT-Bilder zeigen unerwartete Polarisationswechsel bei M87*
"
"Mehrjährige Beobachtungen mit dem Event Horizon Telescope erfassen sich verändernde Polarisationsmuster um das supermassereiche Schwarze Loch und zeigen Radiostrahlung vom Fußpunkt des Jets."

https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressemeldungen/2025/6

16.9.2025

#Astronomie #EHT #Jet #Magnetfeld #M87* #Polarisationsmuster #KittPeak #NOEMA #Radioastronomie #Radioteleskop #SchwarzesLoch #VLBI

#MPIfR:
"
Neue EHT-Bilder zeigen unerwartete Polarisationswechsel bei M87*
"
"Mehrjährige Beobachtungen mit dem Event Horizon Telescope erfassen sich verändernde Polarisationsmuster um das supermassereiche Schwarze Loch und zeigen Radiostrahlung vom Fußpunkt des Jets."

https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressemeldungen/2025/6

16.9.2025

#Astronomie #EHT #Jet #Magnetfeld #M87* #Polarisationsmuster #KittPeak #NOEMA #Radioastronomie #Radioteleskop #SchwarzesLoch #VLBI

#MPIfR:
"
Neue EHT-Bilder zeigen unerwartete Polarisationswechsel bei M87*
"
"Mehrjährige Beobachtungen mit dem Event Horizon Telescope erfassen sich verändernde Polarisationsmuster um das supermassereiche Schwarze Loch und zeigen Radiostrahlung vom Fußpunkt des Jets."

https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressemeldungen/2025/6

16.9.2025

#Astronomie #EHT #Jet #Magnetfeld #M87* #Polarisationsmuster #KittPeak #NOEMA #Radioastronomie #Radioteleskop #SchwarzesLoch #VLBI

#MPIfR:
"
Neue EHT-Bilder zeigen unerwartete Polarisationswechsel bei M87*
"
"Mehrjährige Beobachtungen mit dem Event Horizon Telescope erfassen sich verändernde Polarisationsmuster um das supermassereiche Schwarze Loch und zeigen Radiostrahlung vom Fußpunkt des Jets."

https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressemeldungen/2025/6

16.9.2025

#Astronomie #EHT #Jet #Magnetfeld #M87* #Polarisationsmuster #KittPeak #NOEMA #Radioastronomie #Radioteleskop #SchwarzesLoch #VLBI

#MPIfR:
"
Neue EHT-Bilder zeigen unerwartete Polarisationswechsel bei M87*
"
"Mehrjährige Beobachtungen mit dem Event Horizon Telescope erfassen sich verändernde Polarisationsmuster um das supermassereiche Schwarze Loch und zeigen Radiostrahlung vom Fußpunkt des Jets."

https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressemeldungen/2025/6

16.9.2025

#Astronomie #EHT #Jet #Magnetfeld #M87* #Polarisationsmuster #KittPeak #NOEMA #Radioastronomie #Radioteleskop #SchwarzesLoch #VLBI

NOIRLab image of the week

Hiltner Under the Darkness

Credits: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2536a/

#NOIRLab #Astrophotography #KittPeak #Hiltner #telescope #KPNO #observatory #Arizona #photography #astrodon #astronomy #darkness #MilkyWay #nebula #GumNebula

NOIRLab image of the week

Hiltner Under the Darkness

Credits: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2536a/

#NOIRLab #Astrophotography #KittPeak #Hiltner #telescope #KPNO #observatory #Arizona #photography #astrodon #astronomy #darkness #MilkyWay #nebula #GumNebula

Vera Rubin at Mayall Telescope

Deidre Hunter (left), Katy Garmany (center), and Vera Rubin (right) at the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope around 2000.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/VeraRubin_DeidreHunter_KatyGarmany-CC/

#VeraRubin #Astronomer #Astronomy #Rubin #DeidreHunter #KatyGarmany #science #STEM #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #Astrodon #KittPeak #Arizona #Xterminal #Xterminals #xterm

Vera Rubin at Mayall Telescope

Deidre Hunter (left), Katy Garmany (center), and Vera Rubin (right) at the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope around 2000.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/VeraRubin_DeidreHunter_KatyGarmany-CC/

#VeraRubin #Astronomer #Astronomy #Rubin #DeidreHunter #KatyGarmany #science #STEM #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #Astrodon #KittPeak #Arizona #Xterminal #Xterminals #xterm

NOIRLab image of the week

Southwest of Tucson, the Quinlan Mountains majestically rise to an altitude of 2100 meters in the Schuk Toak District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Atop the central peak in this image sits the Kitt Peak National Observatory.

📷 taken from the eastern side of Tucson on the Aqua Caliente Trail. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF NOIRLab)

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2502a/

#NOIRLab #KittPeak #Tucson #Arizona #Astronomy #Astrodon #telescope #photography #sunset #iotw

NOIRLab image of the week

Southwest of Tucson, the Quinlan Mountains majestically rise to an altitude of 2100 meters in the Schuk Toak District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Atop the central peak in this image sits the Kitt Peak National Observatory.

📷 taken from the eastern side of Tucson on the Aqua Caliente Trail. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF NOIRLab)

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2502a/

#NOIRLab #KittPeak #Tucson #Arizona #Astronomy #Astrodon #telescope #photography #sunset #iotw

NOIRLab image of the week: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2440a/

#NOIRLab #comet #KittPeak #Tucson #Arizona #Astronomy #Astrodon #teslescope #photography #astrophotography #sunrise #iotw

NOIRLab image of the week: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2440a/

#NOIRLab #comet #KittPeak #Tucson #Arizona #Astronomy #Astrodon #teslescope #photography #astrophotography #sunrise #iotw

Astronomers Find the Longest Black Hole Jets Ever Seen https://www.universetoday.com/168663/astronomers-find-the-longest-black-hole-jets-ever-seen/ #giantmetrewaveradiotelescope #blackholeaccretion #keckobservatory #blackholejets #singularity #blackholes #centaurusa #blackhole #cosmology #kittpeak #milkyway #hawaii #lofar

Amateurastronoom vindt vijf nieuwe sterrenstelsels

Een amateurastronoom uit Italië heeft vijf nieuwe dwergsterrenstelsels gevonden bij een ver verwijderd spiraalstelsel. Dit spiraalstelsel is een van de grootste sterrenstelsels die we kennen.

https://www.kuuke.nl/amateurastronoom-vindt-vijf-nieuwe-sterrenstelsels/

#amateurastronoom #DESI #donatiello #DonkerEmaterie #dwergstelsel #dwergsterrenstelsel #KittPeak #MayallTelescoop #NGC253 #sculptor

#NOIRLab #imageoftheweek

A rainbow rises to the clouds over Kitt Peak National Observatory

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Salman
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2412a/

#photography #rainbow #rainbowphotography #clouds #astronomy #astrodon #telescope #telescopes #observatory #KittPeak #Arizona #KPNO #spectroscopy #science #STEAM

#NOIRLab #imageoftheweek

A rainbow rises to the clouds over Kitt Peak National Observatory

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Salman
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2412a/

#photography #rainbow #rainbowphotography #clouds #astronomy #astrodon #telescope #telescopes #observatory #KittPeak #Arizona #KPNO #spectroscopy #science #STEAM

#NOIRLab #imageoftheweek

A rainbow rises to the clouds over Kitt Peak National Observatory

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Salman
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2412a/

#photography #rainbow #rainbowphotography #clouds #astronomy #astrodon #telescope #telescopes #observatory #KittPeak #Arizona #KPNO #spectroscopy #science #STEAM

#NOIRLab #imageoftheweek

A rainbow rises to the clouds over Kitt Peak National Observatory

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Salman
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2412a/

#photography #rainbow #rainbowphotography #clouds #astronomy #astrodon #telescope #telescopes #observatory #KittPeak #Arizona #KPNO #spectroscopy #science #STEAM

#NOIRLab #imageoftheweek

A rainbow rises to the clouds over Kitt Peak National Observatory

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Salman
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2412a/

#photography #rainbow #rainbowphotography #clouds #astronomy #astrodon #telescope #telescopes #observatory #KittPeak #Arizona #KPNO #spectroscopy #science #STEAM

McMath Solar Telescope (later renamed the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope). Kitt Peak, Arizona. February 1979.

Scanned from a 35mm Ektachrome slide. #OldPhotos #Ektachrome #Arizona #KittPeak #KPNO #Astronomy #Ioligam

McMath Solar Telescope (later renamed the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope). Kitt Peak, Arizona. February 1979.

Scanned from a 35mm Ektachrome slide. #OldPhotos #Ektachrome #Arizona #KittPeak #KPNO #Astronomy #Ioligam

Gizmodo: Hackers Force Shutdown of Two Key Astronomical Observatories https://gizmodo.com/hackers-shutdown-two-observatories-north-south-gemini-1850786991?utm_source=regular #associationofuniversitiesforresearchinastronomy #scienceandtechnologyintheunitedstates #nationalopticalastronomyobservatory #cerrotololointeramericanobservatory #nationalsciencefoundation #researchintheunitedstates #observationalastronomy #infraredastronomy #geminiobservatory #observatory #cerropachon #kittpeak #noirlab

Update on the campaign to observe the #transit of #HIP41378 f on Nov. 12. We are one day before !!!

Main observatory statuts:
- #Wendelstein obs. 🟢
- #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟢
- #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
- #MERCATOR / #LaPalma 🟢
- #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟢
- #ESPRESSO / #ESO Paranal 🟢
- #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
- #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
- #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢
- #HIRES / #MaunaKea 🟢
- #MAROON-X / #MaunaKea 🔴
- #SPIRou / #CFHT 🟢
- #PARAS / #MountAbu 🟢

#AstronomerLife #Astronomy #exoplanet

- #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
- #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
- #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢

#Weather in #Arizona looks perfect for the #transit night ... but the #KittPeak #observatory was hit by a serious #contreras #fire in June and the #telescope is down since then. Fortunately, the #firefighters saved the observatory and the staff are working hard. The instrument is expected to be back on sky on Nov. 11, hence ONE DAY before the transit. We still don't know what will be the instrumental stability. #AstronomerLife

Some update of the upcoming campaign to observe the #transit of #HIP41378 f on Nov. 12 (thread here: https://astrodon.social/@AlexSanterne/109298827881210776).

Main observatory statuts:
- #Wendelstein obs. 🟠
- #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟠
- #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
- #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟠
- #ESPRESSO / #ESO Paranal 🟢
- #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
- #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
- #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢
- #HIRES / #MaunaKea 🟢
- #MAROON-X / #MaunaKea 🔴
- #PARAS / #MountAbu 🟢
Details ⤵️

#astrophysics #AstronomerLife #Astronomy #exoplanet

Some update of the upcoming campaign to observe the #transit of #HIP41378 f on Nov. 12 (thread here: https://astrodon.social/@AlexSanterne/109298827881210776).

Main observatory statuts:
- #Wendelstein obs. 🟠
- #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟠
- #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
- #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟠
- #ESPRESSO / #ESO Paranal 🟢
- #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
- #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
- #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢
- #HIRES / #MaunaKea 🟢
- #MAROON-X / #MaunaKea 🔴
- #PARAS / #MountAbu 🟢
Details ⤵️

#astrophysics #AstronomerLife #Astronomy #exoplanet