National Science Foundation Director Visits NOAO South
On January 9 and 10, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Subra Suresh visited NSF optical astronomy facilities in Northern Chile. The NSF group included Dr. Ed Seidel (head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate) and Dr. Anne-Marie Schmoltner who is a program manager in the NSF International Science and Engineering Office.
Join the international star-hunt campaign, GLOBE at Night, January 14-23, 2012. Use a smart phone to submit sky brightness in real time! Visit globeatnight.org.
NOAO astronomers contribute to discovery of very distant, bright galaxy
New Planet Kepler-21b
Discovery a partnership of both space and ground-based observations. NOAO Press Release 11-08
Blue Stragglers form from mass transfer in Binary systems.
This image of open star cluster NGC 188 shows blue stragglers (circled) discussed in new paper published in Nature.
