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Illustration of GMT telescope with the milkyway in the background

February 28, 2024

Organizational News

National Science Board Statement on the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program

Uranus

February 23, 2024

Press Release

New moons of Uranus and Neptune announced

GMT Rendering | Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation

March 21, 2024

Q&A

Carnegie Scientists Share How the Giant Magellan Will Change Astronomy

Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. High-resolution imaging from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combined with a natural effect known as gravitational lensing made this finely detailed image possible. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

February 09, 2024

Feature Story

JWST is Alan Dressler’s dream come true

Henrique Marquez Reggiani at the Carnegie Observatories Open House

February 09, 2024

Spotlight

Postdoc Spotlight: Henrique Marquez Reggiani

CASSI poster presentations

February 02, 2024

Awards

Four Observatories summer interns recognized for exemplary student research

An artist’s conception of the hydrogen being stripped from one half of a binary system, leaving a very hot, helium rich exposed core that will eventually explode as a hydrogen-poor core collapse supernova. Credit: by Navid Marvi, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

December 14, 2023

Long-sought binary star population found! Discovery could answer questions about hydrogen-poor supernova origins

Erika Holmbeck

December 08, 2023

Spotlight

Postdoc Spotlight: Erika Holmbeck

JWST telescope image of a galaxy cluster known as "El Gordo," which is an example of a "cosmic teenager." Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA

November 20, 2023

Remarkably detailed view of “teenage galaxies” from just 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang revealed by JWST

Edwin Hubble and James Jeans at the Mount Wilson Observatory 100-inch Telescope

October 30, 2023

Feature Story

100 Years of Discovering the Universe

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