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Relationship status: Confidently single 😎 @VRubinObs stands alone with its unique mirror, world’s largest digital camera, & fastest-moving mount for its size. Starting 2025, it’ll create a 10-year HD Universe time-lapse. 📷: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Gemini North teamed up with @LOFAR to reveal the largest radio jet ever seen in the early Universe🤯 This monster jet spans over 200,000 light years, twice the width of the Milky Way Galaxy! Read more at 📸: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick

Hello neighbor, could we borrow a cup of photons? 👋 @VRubinObs is in great company at Cerro Pachón, Chile—one of the world’s best observing sites! 🌌 Above it are @Geminiobs South (right) and SOAR (left). 📷: Olivier Bonin/SLAC

This image captures Earth’s rotation through long-exposure photography. At the center? Polaris, the steady North Star, guiding stargazers and astronomical observations. 📸@GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos

The NEID spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope conducted crucial follow-up observations to confirm the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b — one of the most massive planets known to orbit a low-mass star.

Journey Through The Universe, a flagship program of the International Gemini Observatory, celebrates 21 years of bringing the universe to students on Hawai’i Island in early February of 2025.

Using the visiting IGRINS instrument on the Gemini South telescope, a team of astronomers examined the atmosphere of ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b and found hints that it may have formed much closer to its star than previously believed possible.

✨ A new neighbor for the cosmic crew! ✨ The @VRubinObs on Cerro Pachón, Chile, is gearing up to map the night sky like never before, capturing 20TB of data nightly. It’ll join @GeminiObs South & SOAR, bringing unique perspectives to the Universe! 🌌 📷O. Bonin/@SLAC

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) gleams against the January sky above three NOIRLab-supported telescopes in this Image of the Week. Download at Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/C. Corco

Say cheese 📸 @VRubinObs’s LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built. That’s so large, it would take 400 Ultra HD TV screens 📺 to display a single Rubin image.🤯 It’ll scan the sky every few nights, creating a 10-year timelapse. 📷 J. Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC

What are @VRubinObs’s science goals? 🤔 ✅ Understanding the nature of dark matter& dark energy ✅ Inventory the Solar System ✅ Map the Milky Way ✅ Explore changing objects Rubin’s 10-year cosmic movie will revolutionize astronomy! 🔗 📷 H.Stockebrand

🏋️ Another Monday, another week working toward our goals! ✨ Here to motivate you is the Dumbbell Nebula 💪 🔗: 📸: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and @NOIRLab)

Be a part of something amazing! 🌍Participate in @GlobeAtNight's sky brightness measurement until Jan 30 2025 from your computer, tablet, or smartphone and help us raise public awareness about light pollution! Together, let's reach 20,000 data points by the end of 2025! 🌃

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✨ @VRubinObs will capture millions of stellar explosions! Its 10-year Legacy Survey will capture Type Ia supernovae, helping scientists measure cosmic distances & explore dark energy’s role in the Universe’s expansion 🔗 📸RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE

📸CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek

🚨 Breaking news! Using @GeminiObs, astronomers have for the first time traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead elliptical galaxy — a surprising find as FRBs were thought to belong to younger galaxies. 🔗

Learn more: 📷: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory